Vittorio Alfieri Quotes

For 'tis Impossible Hate To Return With Love.

Alas, 'tis Force Alone That Can Compel To Virtuous Actions A Degenerate People.

That Blood Which Thou Hast Spill'd, Should Join You Closely In An Eternal Bond.

Where There Are Laws, He Who Has Not Broken Them Need Not Tremble.

Sometimes Blood, For The Sake Of Sparing It, Is Spilled.

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.

Joy, When It Is Excessive, Overcomes As Much As Grief.

I Had Seen The Great, But I Had Not Seen The Small.

The Time For Hope Is Gone, And Come For Fear.

A Usurper Always Distrusts The Whole World.

Ofttimes The Test Of Courage Becomes Rather To Live Than To Die.

Heaven Takes Care That No Man Secures Happiness By Crime.