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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Umberto Eco
NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century
3.4 · 56 votes · 0 reads
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Nature
[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
Leonardo da Vinci
PainterItaly1452 · 15th century
3.9 · 32 votes · 61 reads
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Nature
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante
PoetItaly1265 · 13th century
3.2 · 19 votes · 119 reads
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Feelings
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man -the one he used to be.
Cesare Pavese
PoetItaly1908 · 20th century
3.5 · 16 votes · 62 reads
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Thought and Reason
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Nicola Abbagnano
PhilosopherItaly1901 · 20th century
4.3 · 11 votes · 24 reads
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Various
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Vilfredo Pareto
EconomistItaly1848 · 19th century
5.0 · 38 votes · 154 reads
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Society
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
Maria Montessori
EducatorItaly1870 · 19th century
4.8 · 23 votes · 196 reads
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Feelings
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
Francesco Petrarch
PoetItaly1034 · 11th century
4.0 · 15 votes · 122 reads
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Thought and Reason
Doubt is the father of invention.
Galileo Galilei
MathematicianItaly1564 · 16th century
4.7 · 28 votes · 105 reads
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Nature
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
Giovanni Boccaccio
PoetItaly1313 · 14th century
4.8 · 13 votes · 17 reads
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