Fausto Cercignani famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.
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Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.
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We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.
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As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.
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Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.
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Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.
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Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.
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When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.
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Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.
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A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.
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Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.
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Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.
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It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.
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If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.
-- Fausto Cercignani
