I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World