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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends."
"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."
"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."
"Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
"The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it."
"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."
"Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed."
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
"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 a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true."
"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
"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?"
"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."
"He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination."
"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."
"The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for."
"Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again."
"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."
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
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