Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.
Pietro AretinoI love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro AretinoFlee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.
Pietro AretinoAnd 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.
Pietro Aretino