From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.