I see but one rule: to be clear.

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.