Count Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803) was an Italian dramatist and poet, considered the “founder of Italian tragedy.” Alfieri was born at Asti in Piedmont.
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Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Thoughts
Liars are always ready to take oaths.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Deception/Lying, Lies
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: One liners
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Education, Thoughts, Thinking, Acceptance, Intelligence
First thoughts are not always the best.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Thoughts
Disgrace is not in the punishment, but in the crime.
—Vittorio Alfieri
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Guilt
Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Courage, Bravery
Heaven will permit no man to secure happiness by crime.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Crime
Well does Heaven take care that no man secures happiness by crime.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Almost all my tragedies were sketched in my mind, either in the act of hearing music, or a few hours after.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Music
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
—Vittorio Alfieri
Topics: Silence
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