Fausto Cercignani Quotes

• Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Hope, Rich, Poor

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• Tu identidad es como tu sombra: no siempre visible y, sin embargo, siempre presente.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Shadow, Identity, Like You

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• A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

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  Secret, Promise, Remains

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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.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Forgiveness, Maturity, Generosity

  "Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani". Book by Brian Morris, p. 21, 2013.

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• Los pensamientos secretos sólo son libres a medias: vuelan imperturbables en los cielos de la libertad interior, pero nunca pueden abandonarlos.

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  Freedom, Sky, Secret

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• Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

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  Freedom, Rejection, Demand

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• If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

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  Time, Past, Living In The Past

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• We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.

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  Error

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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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  Path, Determined, Chance

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• When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Liberty, Remember, Dissent

  "Simply Transcribed: Quotations from Fausto Cercignani". Book by Brian Morris (p. 37), 2014.

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• Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Exercise, Tolerance, Sometimes

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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.

  Fausto Cercignani

  People, Judgement, Yardsticks

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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.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Arte, Creatividad, Imaginación

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• As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Long, Mountain, Poor

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