Occupation: Author Birth: April 20, 1492 Death: October 21, 1556
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation..
Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the ….
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship..
Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?.
A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken..
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of ….
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies..
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself..
Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown..
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them..
Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing..
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment..
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature ….
Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things..
Age has a good mind and sorry shanks..
He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern! - holy, because no carking cares are there, nor ….
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius..
And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... Four dry logs have in them all the ….
Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies..
We are the buffoons of our children..
Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?.