If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite pa...ssion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he h...as very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I steadfastly believe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panem... et Circen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory,... The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire.... This agglomeration which called itself and still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the la...bors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »