“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”

Quoted allegedly &quot;From da Vinci`s Notes&quot; in Jon Wynne-Tyson: The Extended Circle. A Dictionary of Humane Thought. Centaur Press 1985, p. 65 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=1mMbAQAAIAAJ&amp;q=murder. <br class="br">Actually the quote is not authentic but made up from a novel by Dmitri Merejkowski (w:Dmitry Merezhkovsky) entitled &quot;The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci&quot; (La Résurrecton de Dieux 1901), translated from Russian into English by Herbert Trench. G.P. Putnam&#x27;s Sons New York and London, The Knickerbocker Press. There, in Book (i.e. chapter) VI, entitled The Diary of Giovanni Boltraffio, one finds the following: <br class="br">The master [Leonardo da Vinci] permits harm to no living creatures, not even to plants. Zoroastro http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Masini tells me that from an early age he has abjured meat, and says that the time shall come when all men such as he will be content with a vegetable diet, and will think on the murder of animals as now they think on the murder of men ( p. 226 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=g_pa0OaYX64C&amp;pg=PA226). <br class="br">However, despite the quote&#x27;s false attribution, da Vinci was in fact a vegetarian. <br class="br">Misattributed