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Vittorio Alfieri Quotes

1749–1803 Italy

Italy
Playwrights
Poets

Also known as: Alfieri, Vittorio

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13 quotes

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

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

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

I willed, and always willed, and strongly willed.

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

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

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

For 'tis impossible
Hate to return with love.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

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

First thoughts are not always the best.

A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre.

Attribution

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