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“Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.”
Vittorio Conte Alfieri“Often the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.”
Vittorio Alfieri, Oreste: Tragedia In Cinque Atti“To err is human”
but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked“...to give a clear picture of the whole scene of Italian gastronomy.”
Anna Del Conte, The Gastronomy of Italy“Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miserly, how wretched! Stingily given, aridly invented, heavily made!Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miserly, how wretched! Stingily given, aridly invented, heavily made!”
Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques