Felix Meritis in Amsterdam

You're standing on the Keizersgracht, in front of number 324. This is Felix Meritis, Latin for something like happy through merit. Take a look at the façade. With those giant Corinthian pilasters and the triangular pediment, it looks like a Greek temple. That was exactly the idea. The building was meant to show off the ideals of the Enlightenment: reason, knowledge and virtue.