Posted by: Elisabetta
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)
It is better to be hated for what one is than to be loved for what one isn't.
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It is better to be hated for what one is than to be loved for what one isn't.
The victory over vanity is not modesty, or humility, but rather its excess.
A bad experience is worth more than a good mistake.
Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
So that I desire to be like one
who to conceal his poverty through shame,
shows joy outwardly,
and within my heart am troubled and weep.
Here is nothing more rare in the world than someone who is usually bearable.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
We always search what unites us, never that which divides us.
Us Italians have in our tails the venom of the dubitative adverb.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing what decision to take is the worst suffering.