Vittorio Alfieri
Vittorio Alfieri
Count Vittorio Alfieriwas an Italian dramatist and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy."...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth16 January 1749
CountryItaly
gone
The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.
blood sake sometimes
Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.
people degenerates action
Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.
lying liars swear
Liars are always most disposed to swear.
passion men calm
If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.
firsts
First thoughts are not always the best.
children silence soul
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.
kings real pride
Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.
blood should spills
That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.
punishment plot guilty
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
inspire
Necessity inspires the fatal thought.
heartbroken courage bravery
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
punishment doe crime
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.