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

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.

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

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

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

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.

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.