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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends."
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."
"Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us."
"Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community."
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
"Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness."
"I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses."
"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
"In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner."
"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."
"It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true."
"Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst."
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
"Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour."
"The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it."
"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."
"When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him."
"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."
"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
"Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed."
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."
"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command."
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."
"Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet."
"The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out."
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