There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?