The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is read more

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things,
but condescend to men of low estate. read more

Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things,
but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own
conceits.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own,
Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge
Such read more

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own,
Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge
Such as none other hath, when they are known,
They are found shallow.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever read more

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding

Conceit is incompatible with understanding