The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.