Quotes by Italian Authors | Beyond Motive 10/29

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Quotes by Italian Authors

"What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances."

"What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances."

Petrarch, Italian Poet

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"The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb."

"The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb."

Umberto Eco, Italian Novelist

Being, Dumb, Eye, Lies

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"Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous."

"Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous."

Pier P. Pasolini, Italian Filmmaker

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"That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell."

"That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell."

Thomas Aquinas, Italian Theologian

God, Grace, Hell, May

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"It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power."

"It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power."

Gabriele Nanni, Italian Theologian

Men, Power, God, Devil

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"It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic."

"It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic."

Cecilia Bartoli, Italian Musician

Music, Dream, Joy, Play

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"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity."

"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity."

Benito Mussolini, Italian Politician

Virtue, Consciousness, Mission, State

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"Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way."

"Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way."

Cecilia Bartoli, Italian Musician

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"I think it would be stupid for us to try and tell people who are dancing in a discotheque about the problems of the world. That is the very thing they have come away to avoid."

"I think it would be stupid for us to try and tell people who are dancing in a discotheque about the problems of the world. That is the very thing they have come away to avoid."

Giorgio Moroder, Italian Producer

People, Dancing, Problems, World

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"There is no forgiveness in nature."

"There is no forgiveness in nature."

Ugo Betti, Italian Playwright

Forgiveness, Nature

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"Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long."

"Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long."

Christopher Columbus, Italian Explorer

Exploration, Day

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"Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time."

"Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time."

Luigi Pirandello, Italian Playwright

Time, Gentleman

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"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

Art, Work, Spirit

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"Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth."

"Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth."

Bruno Bettelheim, Italian Writer

Growth, Habits, Play

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"The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist."

"The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist."

Cecilia Bartoli, Italian Musician

Time, Artist, First, Magic

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"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."

"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

Time, First, Present, Rivers

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"I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death."

"I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death."

Giacomo Casanova, Italian Celebrity

Death, Cause, Causes, Excess

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"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."

"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."

Michelangelo, Italian Artist

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"Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."

"Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."

Pope Paul VI, Italian Clergyman

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"People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction."

"People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction."

Cecilia Bartoli, Italian Musician

Talent, People, Character, Fiction

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"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."

"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."

Thomas Aquinas, Italian Theologian

Circumstance, Circumstances, Justice, Man, Mind

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"In difficult times fashion is always outrageous."

"In difficult times fashion is always outrageous."

Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian Designer

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"I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing."

"I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing."

Dario Argento, Italian Director

Thought, Nostalgia

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"In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult."

"In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult."

Valentino Rossi, Italian Athlete

Now, Opinion, Testing

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"A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be."

"A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be."

Cesare Pavese, Italian Poet

Identity, Company, Man, World, Youth

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"I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?"

"I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?"

Monica Bellucci, Italian Actress

Performance, Actors, Day, Lawyers

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"Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that."

"Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that."

Gianni Agnelli, Italian Businessman

Doubt, Italy, Party

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"Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out."

"Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out."

Luigi Pirandello, Italian Playwright

Time, Work, Heart, Hope

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"I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage."

"I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage."

Greta Scacchi, Italian Actress

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"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."

"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."

Maria Montessori, Italian Educator

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"One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others."

"One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others."

Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer

4

"My life and career is my own adventure."

"My life and career is my own adventure."

Dario Argento, Italian Director

Life, Adventure, Career

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"After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love."

"After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love."

Monica Bellucci, Italian Actress

Love, Work, Marriage, Hate

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"On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life."

"On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life."

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian Writer

Life, Father, Man

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"In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be."

"In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be."

Alberto Moravia, Italian Novelist

Life, Experience, Choices, May

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"Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt."

"Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt."

Isabella Rossellini, Italian Actress

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"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."

"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."

Thomas Aquinas, Italian Theologian

Happiness, Virtue, Man, Will

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"At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds."

"At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

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"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it."

"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it."

Giorgio Vasari, Italian Artist

Nature, Art, Intelligence, God

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"He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men, he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven, and he has risen above his state by tasting celestial delights."

"He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men, he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven, and he has risen above his state by tasting celestial delights."

Saint Sequoyah, Italian Saint

Peace, Men, Company, Heaven

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"Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?"

"Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?"

Marsilio Ficino, Italian Philosopher

Society, Men, Successful, Feet

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"I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul."

"I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul."

Dario Argento, Italian Director

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"A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy."

"A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy."

Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian Writer

Cultural, Americans, Democracy, Hollywood, Trying

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"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."

"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."

Petrarch, Italian Poet

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"Fascism is not an article for export."

"Fascism is not an article for export."

Benito Mussolini, Italian Politician

Politics, Fascism

4

"Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him."

"Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him."

Monica Bellucci, Italian Actress

4

"Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world."

"Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world."

Aly Khan, Italian Public Servant

Russia, Vulnerability, World

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"I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born."

"I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born."

Hugo Pratt, Italian Cartoonist

People, Memories

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"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit."

"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit."

Thomas Aquinas, Italian Theologian

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"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."

"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."

Petrarch, Italian Poet

Love, Life, Living, Madness

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