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 ….

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment..

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ea….

Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with boo….

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius..

Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home..

We are the buffoons of our children..

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them..

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?.

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once..

I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be th….

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry w….

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 am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself..

The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation..

Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown..

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..

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken..

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?.

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..

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 ….