There are three people in yourself:Who people think you are, Who you think you are, and who you really are.

If you look at a luminous body in the far distance through a smallhole it will seem to grow less, and if you look at it near at hand it will not undergo any change. That is that if you look at this light atadistance of one or two braccia from the aforesaid hole it will not undergo any change whether you are looking at it through this hole or outside of it.

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.

There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent.

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.