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Italy

Capital:             Rome
Government:     Republic
Currency:         euro € (EUR)
Area:                301,230 sq km
Population:       59,619,290 (Jan 2008 est.)
Language:         Italian (official); minor German, French and Slovene-speaking communities

 

 

 

Italy Quotes

 

 

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

 

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
- Michelangelo

 

A misfortune and a friar seldom go alone.

 

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
-Galileo Galilei

 

A drop of water breaks a stone.

 

Once resolved, the trouble is over.

 

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
-Michelangelo

 

Good is good, but better beats it.

 

The secret of getting things done is to act.
-Dante Alighieri

 

One basket of grapes does not make a vintage.

 

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
-Leonardo da Vinci

 

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

 

A thing is never much talked of but there is some truth in it.

 

Silence was never written down

 

Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
-Dante Alighieri

 

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren

 

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
- Christopher Columbus

 

He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.
-Fra Angelico

 

Eggs have no business dancing with stones

 

Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
-Ugo Betti

 

A great liar has need of good memory.

 

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
- Christopher Columbus |

 

Not having enough is like not having anything.

 

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

 

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
-Giotto di Bondone

 

A good appetite does not want sauce.

 

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.
-Giorgio Morandi

 

At sunset Martin Alonzo called out with great joy from his vessel that he saw land, and demanded of the Admiral a reward for his intelligence.
- Christopher Columbus |

 

A secret imparted is no longer a secret.

 

Handsome is not what is handsome, but what pleases.

 

A little stone overturns a great cart.

 

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
-Leonardo da Vinci

 

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
- Dante Alighieri

 

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
-Saint Thomas Aquinas

 

A blind man is not judge of colours.

 

Learning never exhausts the mind.
-Leonardo da Vinci

 

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
-Leon Battista Alberti

 

One good word quenches more heat than a bucket of water.

 

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
-Leonardo da Vinci

 

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
-Michelangelo

 

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
-Giotto di Bondone

 

All are brave when the enemy flies.

 

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
-Leonardo da Vinci

 

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas

 

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
-Ugo Betti

 

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
-Dario Argento

 

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
-Leonardo da Vinci

 

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
-Saint Thomas Aquinas

 

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
-Leonardo da Vinci

 

The education of people is a necessary precondition to peace.
-Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

 

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
- Dario Argento

 

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
- Dante Alighieri

 

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