Category: Citazione del Giorno

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”

          — Mario Andretti (born 1940)

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“In vino veritas.”

          — Gaius Plinius Secundus [Pliny the Elder] (23 – 79)

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“We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”

          — Còsimo di Giovanni degli Mèdici (1389 – 1464)

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“Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.”

          — Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (475 – 524)

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“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority.  Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”

“If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”

          — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896 – 1957)

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“The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.”

“I have not told half of what I saw.”

          — Marco Polo (1254 – 1324)

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“The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile — intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.”

          — Gaius Sallustius Crispus [Sallust] (86 BC – 34 BC)

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“I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.”

          — Marcus Porcius Cato [Cato the Elder] (234 BC – 149 BC]

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