As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

Life is an incurable disease.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

True love begins when you accept yourself in your totality. Then, and only then, can you completely love another.

Try to keep an open mind.

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Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.

Be a gentleman farmer.

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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.