32 Quotes by Vittorio Alfieri

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked

Often the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

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.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.