Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.

Let's give the historians something to write about

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.

What can a little town teach you? It can teach you how a little place already contains the whole features of the entire world!

Bitterness is the cancer of bones.

If you want to win, you have to sacrifice and do what makes the team work most efficiently.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

I said it was a mistake. It wasn't the best choice. But all my emails have been turned over to the public.

There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

Do what is right, though the world may perish.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.