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Quotes by Italian Authors
"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."
"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."
"Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet."
"The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out."
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy."
"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
"Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times."
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
"Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours."
"The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all."
"The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."
"Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community."
"It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better."
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
"I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile."
"I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April."
"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."
"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."
"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"
"I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good."
"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
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