Maxioms by Vittorio Alfieri
 Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's 
what you are expected to give--which read more 
 Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's 
what you are expected to give--which is everything. 
 It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a 
thought without accepting it.  
 It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a 
thought without accepting it. 
 The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who 
lays the plot.
 [It., Il read more 
 The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who 
lays the plot.
 [It., Il reo
  D'un delitto e chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce
   La pena spetta.] 
 Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not 
tremble.
 [It., Ove son leggi,
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 Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not 
tremble.
 [It., Ove son leggi,
  Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.] 
 Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
 [It., Spesso e da forte,
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 Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
 [It., Spesso e da forte,
  Piu che il morire, il vivere.]