Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame. - Leonardo da Vinci

Titian, who painted the living man of action, the man of parts, susceptible alike to the appreciation of ideal beauty and heroic impulse, but guided withal by expediency, reflected this more practical aspect of life. In his portraiture he expressed the statecraft for which Italians found opportunity beyond the Alps, since in Italy it was denied them; and Titian found even Venice too narrow for the scope of his art.

There will come a time when men look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

La sabiduría es hija de la experiencia.