Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.
Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.
Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.