Vittorio Alfieri Quotes

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

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Punishment, Doe, Crime

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 148), 1922.

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

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Heartbroken, Courage, Carpe Diem

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

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Wicked, Crime, Repentance

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 665), 1922.

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• Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Daughter, Silence, Vengeance

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 707), 1922.

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• Liars are always most disposed to swear.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Liars, Lying, Lies And Liars

  Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.197

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• Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Inspire

  Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”

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• The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Friends, Making Friends, Talent

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• Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Joy, Sorrow, Turns

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• If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Passion, Men, Calm

  Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Philip. Polynices. Antigone. Virginia. Agamemnon. Orestes. Rosmunda. Octavia. Timoleon. Merope. Mary Stuart”

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• Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Men, Heaven, Care

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 148-149), 1922.

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• First thoughts are not always the best.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Firsts

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 787-790), 1922.

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• Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Kings, Real, Pride

  Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”

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

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Punishment, Plot, Prison

  "Antigone". Play by Vittorio Alfieri, Act 2, Scene 2, 1801.

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• Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Original Thought, Elements, Virtue

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• Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Grief, Joy, Overcoming

  Vittorio Alfieri (1821). “Tragedies”, p.265

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• A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Kings, Hatred, Conquer

  Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.245

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

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Life, Tests, Dies

  Vittorio Alfieri, Charles Lloyd (1876). “Philip”

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• The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Gone

  Vittorio Alfieri (1821). “Tragedies”, p.255

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• For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Kings, Reign, Presumption

  Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”

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

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Change

  "Reason for Changing his Democratic Opinions" as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 93), 1922.

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

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Broken Heart, Law, Broken

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 430), 1922.

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• A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Trust, World, Usurpers

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 197), 1922.

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• That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Blood, Should, Spills

  Vittorio Alfieri, Charles Lloyd (1876). “Philip”

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• There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Children, Silence, Soul

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• Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Blood, Sake, Sometimes

  Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.128

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