Rare is he who will concede genius.

Rare is he who will concede genius.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

... privation is the source of appetite.

One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may philosophize when preparing dinner.' And I often say, when observing these trivial details: had Aristotle prepared vituals [sic], he would have written more.