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Quotes by Italian Authors
"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."
"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not."
"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."
"A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific."
"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
"If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good."
"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people."
"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."
"For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?"
"No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired."
"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
"The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them."
"Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies."
"It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good."
"It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument."
"Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension."
"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."
"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
"The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction."
"I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself."
"My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily."
"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
"Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?"
"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society."
"He wants only to rest and to have a little peace."
"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."
"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."
"No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it."
"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."
"You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own."
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