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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."
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
"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."
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
"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."
"The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it."
"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true."
"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."
"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."
"Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed."
"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."
"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."
"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."
"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
"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 poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for."
"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."
"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
"He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination."
"Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour."
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."
"It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?"
"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
"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."
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