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Quotes by Italian Authors
"God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves."
"Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station."
"I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives."
"My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can."
"We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own."
"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
"Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community."
"Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes."
"For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent."
"Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism."
"The history of mankind is the history of ideas."
"Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides."
"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."
"It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope."
"Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces."
"Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered."
"I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing."
"The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil."
"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."
"The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned."
"Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features."
"The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?"
"The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters."
"Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love."
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