The Da Vinci Notebooks
The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.
The lion is never afraid, but rather fights with a bold spirit and savage onslaught against a multitude of hunters, always seeking to injure the first that injures him.
The hare is always frightened; and the leaves that fall from the trees in autumn always keep him in terror and generally put him to flight.