Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep.

Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly resembles another, and not only the plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves, and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.