I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.