So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.
MichelangeloA good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
MichelangeloLed by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.
Michelangelo