1315

Schemes for fables, etc..

Fable of the tongue bitten by the teeth.

The cedar puffed up with pride of its beauty, separated itself from the trees around it and in so doing it turned away towards the wind, which not being broken in its fury, flung it uprooted on the earth.

The traveller’s joy, not content in its hedge, began to fling its branches out over the high road, and cling to the opposite hedge, and for this it was broken away by the passers by.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
XX: Humorous Writings.
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1295,
1296,
1297,
1298,
1299,
1300,
1301,
1302,
1303,
1304,
1305,
1306,
1307,
1308,
1309,
1310,
1311,
1312,
1313
Schemes for fables, etc..
1314,
1315,
1316,
1317,
1318,
1319,
1320,
1321,
1322,
1323
Schemes for prophecies.
1324,
1325,
1326,
1327,
1328,
1329,
1330,
1331
Irony (1332).
1332
Tricks.
1333,
1334,
1335
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