4004146A Treatise on Painting — Of common MotionsJohn Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci

Chap. CII.Of common Motions.

The variety of motions in man are equal to the variety of accidents or thoughts affecting the mind, and each of these thoughts, or accidents, will operate more or less, according to the temper and age of the subject; for the same cause will in the actions of youth, or of old age, produce very different effects.