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History of Vegetarianism - Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
. . . To this difficulty we have to add another one: the scarce or no importance which biographers pay to the eating habits of the people they write about. So for example Colin Spencer complains in his book The Heretics Feast that among 60 biographies about Leonardo Da Vinci only two of his biographers mention that he was a vegetarian. - Professor Luis Vallejo Rodríguez, Spain
from The Extended Circle by Jon Wynne-Tyson. Direct link: amazon.co.uk Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: We are burial places! - from da Vinci's 'Notes'
[note: the following quote is from a work of fiction written by Merijkowsky in the 1920s - it has been established that this is not an authentic quote. The attributions for the quote above and the one below were interposed in Jon Wynne-Tyson's book - and have been misquoted ever since.]
Nothing will be left,
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