He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.