Top 36 Vittorio Alfieri Quotes

#1. Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream.

Robert Breault

#2. 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

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

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#4. If you're able to build from your falls you'll be unstoppable and damn near fearless. You see, every time you fall down and get back up, you add another piece of body armor to yourself. You learn what not to do, how to do better, and how to create comfort through practice.

Chris Hardwick

#5. Liars are always most disposed to swear.

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

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

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#8. To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

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#11. That will get you fucked in a hurry, Love.

R.K. Lilley

#12. Life was meant to be lived full measure, flat out, pedal to the metal. Don't live the rest of your life like a Porsche that never leaves the garage because somebody's afraid to scratch it.

J. Michael Straczynski

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

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

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

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

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#17. First thoughts are not always the best.

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#18. You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

Farrah Fawcett

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

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

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#21. Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

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

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

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#24. Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.

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

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#26. Forward, men, and mix with them.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

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

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#29. All science is merely a means to an end. The means is knowledge. The end is control.

Milton William Cooper

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

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#31. The light is more powerful than the darkness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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#33. One of the big songwriting things for me has always been: always think what you do sucks. Because the second you stop believing that, you suck. And that's a fact.

Julian Casablancas

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

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#35. A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

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

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