What did Vittorio Alfieri mean by: For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov’reign power … is an act of perilous presumption. - Vittorio Alfieri Playwright · Italy Copy
+ Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vittorio Alfieri, Die, 0 - Vittorio Alfieri Playwright · Italy
+ If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vittorio Alfieri, Calm, Passion, 0 - Vittorio Alfieri Playwright · Italy
+ Alas, ’tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vittorio Alfieri, Action, Degenerates, 0 - Vittorio Alfieri Playwright · Italy
+ The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vittorio Alfieri, Plot, Prison, Punishment, 0 - Vittorio Alfieri Playwright · Italy
+ Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vittorio Alfieri, Crime, Punishment, 0 - Vittorio Alfieri Playwright · Italy
+ The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vittorio Alfieri, Friendship, Talent, 0 - Vittorio Alfieri Playwright · Italy
+ Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vittorio Alfieri, Broken, Broken Heart, Law, 0 - Vittorio Alfieri Playwright · Italy
+ That blood which thou hast spill’d, should join you closely in an eternal bond. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vittorio Alfieri, Blood, 0 - Vittorio Alfieri Playwright · Italy
Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest. - Jean Meslier Priest · France
When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it. - Jean-Baptiste Colbert
The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain’t no king, man. - Jeff Bridges Actor · USA
I started when I was in ‘The King and I’ when I was on Broadway when I was nine. - Jenna Ushkowitz Actress · South Korea
