"Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun."
"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."
"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."
"Our life is made by the death of others."
"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."