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Men will communicate with each other from the most distant countries, and reply. Many will abandon their own habitations and take with them their own goods, and go and inhabit other countries. Men will pursue the thing which they most greatly fear; that is to say, they will be miserable in order to avoid falling into misery. Men standing in separate hemispheres will converse with each other, embrace each other, and understand each other's language.
Men will communicate with each other from the most distant countries, and reply. Many will abandon their own habitations and take with them their own goods, and go and inhabit other countries. Men will pursue the thing which they most greatly fear; that is to say, they will be miserable in order to avoid falling into misery. Men standing in separate hemispheres will converse with each other, embrace each other, and understand each other's language.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Leonardo da Vinci
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 1486 AD · medieval
author lifetime midpoint (1452–1519); not quotation composition date; not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
Represented by the complete source-numbered selections in Thoughts on Art and Life, Maurice Baring’s1906English translation, edited by Lewis Einstein. The catalogue records1452–1519; the historical collection is a selection from notebooks, not a continuous book composed by Leonardo or independent authentication of every attributed passage.
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