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Quotes by Italian Authors
"The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory."
"Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love."
"And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class."
"They killed our mirror, our light, our comfort and our true guide."
"The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise."
"Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches."
"The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them."
"A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place."
"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."
"After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?"
"God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer."
"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."
"From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me."
"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
"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."
"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."
"The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."
"How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God."
"The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off."
"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."
"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."
"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."
"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."
"If the ancients had been able to see it as I see it now, Mr. Palomar thinks, they would have thought they had projected their gaze into the heaven of Plato's ideas, or in the immaterial space of the postulates of Euclid; but instead, thanks to some misdirection or other, this sight has been granted to me, who fear it is too beautiful to be true, too gratifying to my imaginary universe to belong to the real world. But perhaps it is this same distrust of our senses that prevents us from feeling comfortable in the universe. Perhaps the first rule I must impose on myself is this: stick to what I see."
"The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all."
"There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are."
"Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence."
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