prethucksalo

Robarghe le vissere?

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. Things are only impossible until they're not. Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis. That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier. They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

Non posso dirvi di pie.

What if this weren't a hypothetical question? Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting. The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old? I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Io mi sagrifico per sua cagione ad abitare

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly? I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true. For visions come not to polluted eyes. When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

In verite, questa volta sono pie curioso di voi.

God creates men, but they choose each other. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived. But be, as you have been, my happiness... It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Tu amar altra donna? Tu aspirare a sposarla?

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't? They can conquer who believe they can. Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. I never know how much of what I say is true. There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.' It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.