Occupation: Author Birth: April 20, 1492 Death: October 21, 1556
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it..
Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch..
Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap..
Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies..
Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things..
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..
With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart….
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 ….
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 ….
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 ….
Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up….
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!.
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood..