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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."
"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."
"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
"No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."
"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."
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
"There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are."
"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."
"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."
"How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!"
"A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair."
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
"From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me."
"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."
"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."
"Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out."
"Fascism is a religious concept."
"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
"It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better."
"How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God."
"I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin."
"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."
"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."
"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."
"I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul."
"The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters."
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