Alessandro Manzoni quotes

It is one of the advantages of this world that people can hate and be hated without knowing each other. (Alessandro Manzoni)
But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide. View quote
Alessandro Manzoni
What comes after is not always progress. View quote
Alessandro Manzoni
A lawyer must be told things frankly; then it's up to us to muddle them up. View quote
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The general practice is for the secret to be confided only to an equally trustworthy friend, the same conditions being imposed on him. And so from trustworthy friend to trustworthy friend the secret goes moving on round that immense chain, until finally it reaches the ears of just the very person or persons whom the first talker had expressly intended it never should reach. View quote
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Lecco is a country that I would call one of the most beautiful in the world. View quote
Alessandro Manzoni