And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images.

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.

No matter what is your name, gender, race and nationality, you too are fully capable in turning your dreams into realities.

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy.

You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.