To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

God made me and broke the mold.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.