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

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

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.

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.

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity.