The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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All the things I really like to do are either immoral illegal or fattening.

From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.

We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.

People will love you and support you when it's beneficial.

I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains!

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.