Pietro Candido Decembrio Quotes

“...when I look at and study the ranks of my books - for I have put the name of each author on the binding - I feel as if I am looking at the holy graves of those who wrote them.”

“History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.”

“Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful?”

“All that really matters isto feel alive, if only for a single moment –to feel in Intense Sensationthat our existence is not an endless repetitionof sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.”

“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

“Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.”

“I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself.”

“Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other”

“If every man's internal care Were written on his brow How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?”

“A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.”