Quotes from authors passed in 1556
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
Pietro Aretino
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
Saint Ignatius
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino
Robert Owen 
Lincoln Chafee 
Chris Farley 
Jason Marsden 
Bill Hayden 
Martin Fleischmann 
Emma Caulfield 
Islom Karimov