“The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.” IfsHomePastPayObjectsStonesHatredFortuneDearMiserableComplimentAncestorGood FortuneWhat You LovePeninsulasCompliments You Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
“The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.” NeedsMindFirstsHomeEyeLastsSawsSightBlindTradeFortuneRateSeekingMechanicStay At HomeCoquette Book:Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings Source: Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings
“I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.” MenShouldHomeLaborFortuneLivelihoodDepartedSerfs Author:Homer