Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

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

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.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.