Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul …

- Baldassare Castiglione

Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.

- Baldassare Castiglione

Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and…

- Baldassare Castiglione

I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at …

- Baldassare Castiglione

Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that h…

- Baldassare Castiglione

Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.

- Baldassare Castiglione

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without …

- Baldassare Castiglione

Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to…

- Baldassare Castiglione

Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.

- Baldassare Castiglione