The folly of endless toil
A pocket-book maxim on the man who wearies himself so as never to be wearied
The upper part of this small leaf carries a few lines of Leonardo's mirror-writing, the lower half left blank. The note is a moral aphorism on the folly of a man who forever toils in order not to toil, while life slips away under the hope of one day enjoying goods won with the utmost labour. It is one of the maxims jotted through this pocket notebook.
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The folly of endless toil
The note is a moral aphorism: this man's greatest folly is that he perpetually toils in order not to toil, while life slips away from him. He lives under the hope of one day enjoying goods that were won only through the utmost labour. It is one of the pocket-book's jotted maxims.