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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

- Carlo Goldoni

Other quotes by Carlo Goldoni


The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

- Carlo Goldoni

The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.

- Carlo Goldoni

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

- Carlo Goldoni

He who talks much cannot talk well.

- Carlo Goldoni

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

- Carlo Goldoni

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

- Carlo Goldoni

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

- Washington Irving

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

- W. H. Auden

He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.

- Don J. Manuel

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

- Aesop

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

- Niccolo Machiavelli