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Vincenzo Cuoco Quotes

1770–1823 Italy

Vincenzo Cuoco (October 1, 1770 – December 14, 1823) was an Italian writer. He is mainly remembered for his Saggio Storico sulla Rivoluzione Napoletana del 1799 (Italian for "Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799").

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

If the art of eloquence is the art of persuading, there is no other eloquence but that of saying the truth, only the truth, the naked truth. Words, since it is a necessity of our infirm nature to clothe thought, will be the more powerful the more they are suited to their aim, that is the more naked they will leave the truth, which resides in thought.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vincenzo Cuoco (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.