Fausto Cercignani Quotes

#1. Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

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#2. Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

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#3. We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.

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#4. Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

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#5. Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

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#6. When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.

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#7. Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

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#8. It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

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#9. Once I believed that sooner or later I would come across a really wise person; today I couldn't even say what wisdom is.

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#10. As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.

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#11. Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

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#12. A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

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#13. Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.

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#14. If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

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#15. Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

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