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Italy Quotes
The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
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.
A drop of water breaks a stone.
Once resolved, the trouble is over.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Good is good, but better beats it.
The secret of getting things done is to act.
One basket of grapes does not make a vintage.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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.
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.
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.
A great liar has need of good memory.
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
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.
A good appetite does not want sauce.
Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.
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.
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.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
A blind man is not judge of colours.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
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.
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
All are brave when the enemy flies.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
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.
The education of people is a necessary precondition to peace.
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. |





