For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

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.

The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

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

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.