10 notable quotes by vittorio alfieri
- If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.
- The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
- To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
- That blood which thou hast spill’d, should join you closely in an eternal bond.
- A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.
- 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.
- 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.
- Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
- Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
- Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.
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