Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.

This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.