Quotes by Italian Authors - Page 4

The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
Luigi Pirandello
If you want to die happily learn to live if you would live happily learn to die.
Celio Calcagnini
His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
Giovanni Boccaccio
If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss I would not despair I would not lose hope of mercy because I would trust in You my God.
Gemma Galgani
So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.
Saint Angela of Foligno
Our condition is most noble being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.
Saint Angela of Foligno
Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.
Saint Angela of Foligno
Oh if everyone knew how beautiful Jesus is how amiable He is! Fhey would all die from love.
Gemma Galgani
He loves He hopes He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.
Maria Goretti
It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me God eternal apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
Saint Catherine of Siena
I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
Dante Alighieri
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
Leonardo da Vinci
Man proposes and God disposes.
Ariosto
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture.
Benedetto Croce
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino
The man who trusts other men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
Camillo Di Cavour
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
Eleonora Duse
The end of pain we take as happiness.
Giacomo Leopardi
You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.
Giacomo Leopardi
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
Saint Francis of Assisi
The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.
Moses Luzzatto
Without forgiveness life is governed ... by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Robert Assaglioli
Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
Niccolò Machiavelli
When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.
Leonardo da Vinci
Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared for their love is held by a chain of obligation which because of men's wickedness is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who by the mysterious influence of grace of sweetness and of love renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness.
Giuseppe Mazzini
The whole world is my family.
Pope John XXIII
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia
Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Faith is God's work within us.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord and let your service be according to reason.
Saint Clare of Assisi
Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.
Saint Angela of Foligno
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not in hand.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
To a brave man good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
Saint Catherine of Siena
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci
You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.
Federico Fellini
Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in the world.
Cesare Pavese
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
Guiseppe Garibaldi
Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo
Ail hope abandon ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed or exempt from danger.
Niccolò Machiavelli
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra
I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.
Michelangelo
The End of every maker is himself.
St. Thomas Aquinas
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Niccolò Machiavelli
We must therefore take account of this changeable nature of things and of human institutions and prepare for them with enlightened foresight.
Pope Pius XI
My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.
Luigi Pirandello
Lose yourself wholly and the more you lose the more you will find.
Saint Catherine of Siena
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.
Giacomo Leopardi
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Soldiers strike the foe in the face!
Florus