Those men who are inventors and interpreters between Nature and Man, as compared with boasters and declaimers of the works of others, must be regarded and not otherwise esteemed than as the object in front of a mirror, when compared with its image seen in the mirror.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Those men who are inventors and interpreters between Nature and Man, as compared with boasters and declaimers of the works of others, must be regarded and not otherwise esteemed than as the object in front of a mirror, when compared with its image seen in the mirror." in the context of "Leonardo da Vinci, in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. I, as translated by Jean Paul Richter (1888)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.