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Quotes by Italian Authors
"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."
"Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist."
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."
"I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate."
"And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director."
"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."
"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get."
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."
"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."
"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."
"If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed."
"A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair."
"I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us."
"Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them."
"The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes."
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
"Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins."
"It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better."
"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."
"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
"I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets."
"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour."
"In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life."
"No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves."
"By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel."
"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."
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