Italian Quotes

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Follow your own star!

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

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

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

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

First thoughts are not always the best.

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

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

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

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

Men can do all things if they will.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.