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Quotes by Italian Authors
"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."
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command."
"He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination."
"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."
"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."
"It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?"
"Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours."
"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."
"I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
"I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile."
"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."
"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."
"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."
"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."
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
"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."
"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."
"Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community."
"Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times."
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