The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

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.