Category: Citazione del Giorno

“Fortune smiles upon our first effort.”

— Publius Vergilius Maro [Virgil] (70 BC – 19 BC)

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“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary.  To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”

— St. Thomas Aquinas – (1225-1274)

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“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”

— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 – 180)

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“No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today.  Take heaven!

No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.  Take peace!

The gloom of the world is but a shadow.  Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.”

— Fra Giovanni Giocondo (1433 – 1515)

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“Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.”

— Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506)

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“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal, but which the reader recognizes as his own”

— Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 – 1968)

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“Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment.  So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.”

— Francesco Petrarca (1304 – 1374)

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“I am aware of the frailty of man, I think about the power of fortune, and I know that all our actions are at the mercy of a thousand vicissitudes.”

— Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major (236 BC – 183 BC)

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“Lovely it is, when the winds are churning up the waves on the great sea, to gaze out from the land on the great efforts of someone else.”

— Titus Lucretius Carus (99 BC – 55 BC)

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“One eats more in Bologna in a year than in Venice in two, in Rome in three, in Turin in five, and in Genoa in twenty.”

— Ippolito Nievo (1831 – 1861)

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