Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet and novelist.
Alessandro Manzoni is famous for the novel The Betrothed (orig. Italian: I Promessi Sposi) , generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature.
The novel is also a symbol of the Italian Risorgimento, both for its patriotic message and because it was a fundamental milestone in the development of the modern, unified Italian language.
Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.
One of the greatest comforts of this life is friendship; and one of the comforts of friendship is that of having someone we can trust with a secret.
I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years’ time.
Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.
They settled the question, by deciding that misfortunes most commonly happen to us from our own misconduct or imprudence; but sometimes from causes independent of ourselves; that the most innocent and prudent conduct cannot always preserve us from them; and that, whether they arise from our own fault or not, trust in God softens them, and renders them useful in preparing us for a better life.
Politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
A lawyer must be told things frankly; then it’s up to us to muddle them up.
It is one of the advantages of this world that people can hate and be hated without knowing each other.
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.
What comes after is not always progress”
