
“Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XXI Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes.
Source: The Great Gatsby
“Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XXI Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes.
“I wouldn't dream of intruding into a reserved matter.”
Principles and Priorities : Programme for Government (September 5, 2007)
Source: "Die Menschen können nicht ohne Hoffnung leben" (one of his last interviews), Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (February 11, 2002)
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
I 1 as translated in Giordano Bruno : His Life and Thought with annotated translation of his work On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1950) by Dorothea Waley Singer http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/bruno03.htm
De immenso (1591)