First thoughts are not always the best.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Thoughts
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Vengeance, One liners
Liars are always ready to take oaths.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Deception/Lying, Lies, Lying
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Thoughts
Heaven will permit no man to secure happiness by crime.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Crime
Disgrace is not in the punishment, but in the crime.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Courage, Bravery
Almost all my tragedies were sketched in my mind, either in the act of hearing music, or a few hours after.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Music
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Guilt
Well does Heaven take care that no man secures happiness by crime.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Wickedness
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Silence
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Intelligence, Thinking, Education, Acceptance, Graduation, Thoughts
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