Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.
The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.