Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams with the imagination being awake?[Perchè vede piv certa la cosa l’ochio ne’ sogni che colla imaginatione, stando desto?]
When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.[Quand une femme vous parle, regardez ce que disent ses yeux.]
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.[Nessuno corpo fia di tata magnitudine che per lunga distantia all’ochio non apparisca minore che’l minore obietto piv vicino.]
The Way to see by Faith, is to shut the Eye of Reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.[Also known as:]It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
The Eyes of other People are the Eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine Clothes, fine Houses nor Fine Furniture.
The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of its sorrow, and sees in innumerable far-off places, the woe which is close at hand????
The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.[L’ochio, che si parte dal bianco alluminato dal sole e va in loco di minor luce, ogni cosa li parra tenebrosa.]
The eye – which sees all objects reversed – retains the images for some time.[La luce operado nel vedere le cose cóuerse alquàto le spetie di quelle ritiene.]
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
