Vittorio Alfieri Quotes
- Liars are always most disposed to swear.
- Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
- Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
- A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
- First thoughts are not always the best.
- Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
- Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
- To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
- Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
- 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.
- For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.
- Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
- Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.