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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working."
"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."
"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."
"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
"A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment."
"Experience is what you get while looking for something else."
"When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means."
"I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions."
"There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved."
"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."
"War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace."
"I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you."
"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."
"Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life."
"My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength."
"To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative - the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time."
"Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him."
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."
"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
"You're the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this."
"I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic."
"When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself."
"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."
"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."
"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."
"You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow."
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
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