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• I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore…
• I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
• A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and…
• I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or…
• If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
• Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want…
• Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
• Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.
• I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry…
• With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of…
• The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of…
• Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is…

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