Quotes by Italian Authors - Page 31

It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
Benito Mussolini
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.
Francis of Assisi
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today
Francis of Assisi
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always
Dante Alighieri
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Leonardo da Vinci
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Francis of Assisi
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci
The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.
Thomas Aquinas
Our life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da Vinci
Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.
David Rossi
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions
Leonardo da Vinci
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Cesare Pavese
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia
And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Any time not spent on love is wasted.
Torquato Tasso
Love, that moves the sun and the other stars
Dante Alighieri
I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.
Antonio Porchia
What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.
Umberto Eco
And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.
Alberto Moravia
If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.
Italo Calvino
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
Arrigo Boito