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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
"The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out."
"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command."
"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."
"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
"I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
"Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours."
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."
"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."
"I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing."
"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
"Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again."
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."
"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good."
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason."
"I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile."
"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy."
"When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference."
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
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