The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Comp...
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“Often the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.”
Source: Oreste: Tragedia in Cinque Atti
“For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.”
Source: Tragedies
“Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.”
“The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.”
“For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.”
Source: The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works
“Necessity inspires the fatal thought.”
Source: The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works
“If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.”
Source: The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Philip. Polynices. Antigone. Virginia. Agamemnon. Orestes. Rosmunda. Octavia. Timoleon. Merope. Mary Stuart
“Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.”
Source: The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works
“Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.”
Source: The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri
“Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.”
Source: Tragedies
“That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.”
Source: Philip
“A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.”
Source: The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri
“The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.”
Source: Tragedies
“Liars are always most disposed to swear.”
Source: The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri
“Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.”
Source: Philip
“Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.”
“To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.”
“Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.”
“The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.”