Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself
Beware of flattery, 'tis a weed Which oft offends the very idol--vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.
Wedded love is founded on esteem.
O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great, With empty pageantries!
Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.
Vodka is a very deceptive drink. You can't taste it, you can't smell it.
If you can see them [the terrorists] as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.
It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from the communist world and, in the end, from politics. That was fortunate. The idea of putting literature in second place, after politics, is an enormous mistake, because politics almost never achieves its ideals.