Quotes About Alfieri

#1. Toward Florence he was specially drawn by the fact that Alfieri now lived there; but, as often happens after such separations, the reunion was a disappointment. Alfieri, indeed, warmly welcomed his friend; but he was engrossed in his dawning passion for the Countess of Albany, and

Edith Wharton

#2. To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Vittorio Alfieri

#3. Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

Vittorio Alfieri

#4. Check out my interview with Kostya Kennedy on themodern online. Sports Illustrated writer and author of Pete Rose: An American Dilemma. It may change your mind, one way or the other.

Kostya Kennedy

#5. For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

Vittorio Alfieri

#6. A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#7. Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.

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#8. Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.

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#9. Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

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#10. Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

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#11. Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

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#12. Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.

Mignon McLaughlin

#13. Things which had at first felt like signs, if I analysed them for too long, ended up feeling like the movements of my own reflection in dark glass.

Olivia Sudjic

#14. It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China ... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter.

Ron Klein

#15. When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law.

Mo Ibrahim

#16. Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.

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#17. Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

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#18. So the first thing that went on was to decide ... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.

James Stockdale

#19. A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

Vittorio Alfieri

#20. [K]nowing one's fate never made a whit of difference, except it made the fated a tad more anxious.

Gene Doucette

#21. Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Vittori Alfieri

#22. Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

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#23. It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

Sarah Dessen

#24. Some people's inner child is a colicky baby.

Annamaria Alfieri

#25. Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.

Vittorio Alfieri

#26. I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

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#27. Liars are always most disposed to swear.

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#28. If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

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#29. For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.

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#30. The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

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#31. The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.

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#32. Let your hope keep you joyful.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. We cannot sit around and talk about the beloved community.

Cleveland Sellers

#34. Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes
that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.

Lord Byron

#35. The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.

Vittorio Alfieri

#36. If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Chanakya

#37. Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

Vittorio Alfieri

#38. A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.

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#39. That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.

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#40. Often the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

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#41. I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

Cate Blanchett

#42. First thoughts are not always the best.

Vittorio Alfieri

#43. No man can be stronger than his destiny.

Mary Hunter Austin

#44. Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

Vittorio Alfieri