1132

Prayers to God.

I obey Thee Lord, first for the love I ought, in all reason to bear Thee; secondly for that Thou canst shorten or prolong the lives of men.

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

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
XIX: Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Prayers to God.
1132,
1133
The powers of Nature.
1134,
1135,
1136,
1137,
1138,
1139
Psychology.
1140,
1141,
1142,
1143,
1144,
1145,
1146,
1147
Science, its principles and rules.
1148,
1149,
1150,
1151,
1152
. . .