Fausto Cercignani
Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.Collection: Hope
Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.Collection: Shadow
A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.Collection: Secret
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.Collection: Forgiveness
Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.Collection: Freedom
Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.Collection: Freedom
If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.Collection: Time
We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.Collection: Mistake
Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.Collection: Path
When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.Collection: Liberty
Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.Collection: Exercise
Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.Collection: People
Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.Collection: Art
As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.Collection: Long