The Medici created and destroyed me.

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.