Italian Historian Quotes

Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.

Pliny the Elder

All this he said with so steady a voice and countenance, that he seemed to be passing, not out of life, but merely from one house to another.

Cornelius Nepos

He who would form a correct judgment of their tone, must hear first one bell and then the other.

Filippo Baldinucci

Wanting to reform everything is the same thing as wanting to destroy everything.

And I no other fancy have but this,
To escape from servitude and poverty;
Nothing else in all the world is bad, I believe.

As Dr. Chiang puts it, while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.

Carlo M. Cipolla