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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."
"When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him."
"Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour."
"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
"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."
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."
"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."
"I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."
"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."
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."
"Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm."
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."
"When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference."
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
"I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile."
"He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end."
"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."
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good."
"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy."
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