You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

Cultivate those who can teach you.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.