And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... Four dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

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

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

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

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.

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