{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/1200.htm","path":"aor/dv/1200.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/1200.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nJust as courage imperils life, fear protects it.\nThreats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.\nWherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.\nHe who walks straight rarely falls.\nIt is bad if you praise, and worse if you reprove a thing, I mean, if you do not understand the matter well.\nIt is ill to praise, and worse to reprimand in matters that you do not understand.","title":"Vol. II: XIX. Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and ...","type":"page"}