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Quotes by Italian Authors
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them."
"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."
"Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station."
"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."
"We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own."
"The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all."
"The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's?"
"Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy."
"Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will."
"After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world."
"The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars."
"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
"I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds."
"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."
"The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."
"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."
"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
"Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not."
"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."
"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."
"Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future."
"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."
"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."
"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."
"You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools."
"Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church."
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