No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.
Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.
Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.