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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends."
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"The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it."
9
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
8
"Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again."
8
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
7
"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
6
"Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed."
5
"The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."
5
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
5
"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."
5
"Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us."
5
"In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner."
5
"To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination."
5
"I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses."
Man,
5
"Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness."
5
"He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination."
4
"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."
4
"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."
4
"Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst."
4
"It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?"
4
"Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet."
4
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
3
"It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true."
3
"Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community."
3
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