You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from Doctrine... but that she expects to impose these commandments upon me who do not have the good fortune of being a believer, trying to pour them into civil law in a way that they become obligatory even to us non-believers, is it right? To me it doesn't seem so.

Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.

I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.