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Quotes by Italian Authors
"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."
"The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all."
"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."
"Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community."
"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."
"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real."
"It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better."
"I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"
"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
"The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
"A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair."
"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
"There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are."
"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."
"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground."
"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
"Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life."
"Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose."
"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."
"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."
"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
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