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Quotes by Vittorio Alfieri

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
– Vittorio Alfieri
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
– Vittorio Alfieri
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
– Vittorio Alfieri
First thoughts are not always the best.
– Vittorio Alfieri
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
– Vittorio Alfieri
Liars are always most disposed to swear.
– Vittorio Alfieri
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
– Vittorio Alfieri
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
– Vittorio Alfieri
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
– Vittorio Alfieri
Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
– Vittorio Alfieri