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Quotes by Italian Authors
"The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man."
"Atât de mare e puterea adevărului care, precum binele, se răspândește de la sine.”
"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."
"Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame."
"I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members."
"Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don't like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don't like it."
"Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid."
"It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world."
"Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations."
"Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?"
"Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy."
"If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point."
"It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important."
"Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime."
"I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and I presume he himself did not know, moved as he was solely by the desire for truth, and by the suspicion - which I could see he always harbored - that the truth was not what was appearing to him at any given moment."
"Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries."
"It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation."
"Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary."
"Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle."
"The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months."
"The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them."
"At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being."
"Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth."
"Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people."
"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."
"Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?"
"You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not."
"I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to."
"How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child."
"Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole."
"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."
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