Occupation: Author Birth: April 20, 1492 Death: October 21, 1556
The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once..
Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap..
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it..
Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing..
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!.
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….
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….
Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch..
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..
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….
Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherw….
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….
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….
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood..