Vittorio Alfieri Quotes

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Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

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

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First thoughts are not always the best.

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Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

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

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

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There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly then the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.

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

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Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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