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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society."
"Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier."
"The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written."
"I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young."
"It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master."
"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."
"You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own."
"Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve."
"All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge."
"That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts."
"Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public."
"When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules."
"If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his person, which may not happen to be so beautiful as it ought to be. He must, therefore, guard particularly against that self-love, or too good opinion of his own person, and study by every means to acquire the knowledge of what is most beautiful, and of his own defects, that he may adopt the one and avoid the other."
"I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion."
"Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told."
"But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it?"
"Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is."
"The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way."
"There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely."
"The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters."
"When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere."
"Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life."
"A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism."
"If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks."
"I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips."
"It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new."
"Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you."
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