Top 27 Quotes & Sayings by Vittorio Alfieri
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian dramatist Vittorio Alfieri.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Liars are always most disposed to swear.
A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
First thoughts are not always the best.
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.
I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.
A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.
The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.
Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.
Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.
The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.
Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.
That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.
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.
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.
Necessity inspires the fatal thought.
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.
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