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.

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.

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

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.

With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.

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