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We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
-- George Eliot
Famous Vittorio Alfieri Quotes
- Topic: Distrust
A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
-- Vittorio Alfieri - Topic: Silence
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
-- Vittorio Alfieri - Topic: Crime
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
-- Vittorio Alfieri - Topic: Thought
First thoughts are not always the best.
-- Vittorio Alfieri - Topic: Love
For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.
-- Vittorio Alfieri - Topic: Crime
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
-- Vittorio Alfieri - Topic: Change
I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.
-- Vittorio Alfieri - Topic: Thought
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-- Vittorio Alfieri - Topic: Lying
Liars are always most disposed to swear.
-- Vittorio Alfieri - Topic: Love
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is everything.
-- Vittorio Alfieri - Topic: Courage
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
-- Vittorio Alfieri - Topic: Life
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
-- Vittorio Alfieri - Topic: Thought
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
-- Vittorio Alfieri - Topic: Crime
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
-- Vittorio Alfieri - Topic: Repentance
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
-- Vittorio Alfieri - Topic: Law
Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
-- Vittorio Alfieri