Poems List

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.
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To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect.
The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.
Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.
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Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.
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Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.
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Lust is the cause of generation.
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If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.
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If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.
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Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
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