Vittorio Alfieri quotes

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
-- Vittorio Alfieri

#Punishment #Doe #Crime

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

#Heartbroken #Courage #Tests

First thoughts are not always the best.
-- Vittorio Alfieri

#Firsts

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.
-- Vittorio Alfieri

#Joy #Sorrow #Turns

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

#Elements #Original Thought #Virtue

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
-- Vittorio Alfieri

#Trust #Usurpers #World

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

#Passion #Men #Calm

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

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.
-- Vittorio Alfieri

#People #Degenerates #Action

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

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.
-- Vittorio Alfieri

#Blood #Sake #Sometimes

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.
-- Vittorio Alfieri

#Grief #Joy #Overcoming

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

#Blood #Should #Spills

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

#Kings #Hatred #Conquer

The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.
-- Vittorio Alfieri

#Gone

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.
-- Vittorio Alfieri

#Inspire

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

#Kings #Reign #Presumption

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

#Law #Broken #Needs

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
-- Vittorio Alfieri

#Men #Heaven #Care

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

#Wicked #Crime #Virtuous

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

#Life #Tests

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

#Punishment #Plot #Guilty

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.
-- Vittorio Alfieri

#Change

For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.
-- Vittorio Alfieri

#Love #Hate #Return

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
-- Vittorio Alfieri

#Daughter #Silence #Vengeance

The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.
-- Vittorio Alfieri

#Friends #Making Friends #Talent

Liars are always most disposed to swear.
-- Vittorio Alfieri

#Lying #Liars #Swear