What did Vittorio Alfieri mean by: Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. - 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
+ 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 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
+ 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
+ To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vittorio Alfieri, Crime, Repentance, Wicked, 0 - Vittorio Alfieri Playwright · Italy
+ A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vittorio Alfieri, Conquer, Hatred, Kings, 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
+ For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov’reign power … is an act of perilous presumption. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vittorio Alfieri, Kings, Reign, 0 - Vittorio Alfieri Playwright · Italy
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation. - Michael Steinhardt
Everyone, when there’s war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
