The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.