Quotes by Vittorio Alfieri

• Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
• A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
• Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
• Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
• First thoughts are not always the best.
• Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
• To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
• 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.
• Liars are always most disposed to swear.