“Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.”

—  Leonardo Da Vinci

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variant: Where there is most power of feeling, there of martyrs is the greatest martyr.

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