Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

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

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.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

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

Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.

With our hands, we reach for things we shouldn't have and we grasp what isn't ours. The way I have always reached for you.

But destiny is a very peculiar thing, with a complex timing that is impossible to comprehend.

By all means judge and react, but at some point afterwards be sure to reflect and switch sides. The next time you might be less quick to react.

A sworn sworn owes his liege our service and obedience, but this is madness.

When you aren't working, you really want to emulate the real version of yourself.

Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us The very clouds move on.

I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make a kinda "rave culture" movie.

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.

Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though.