We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.