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

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

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

Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.

Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

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 the eyes be denied what delights them most?