“Even to have come forth is something, since I see that being able to conquer is placed in the hands of fate. However, there was in me, whatever I was able to do, that which no future century will deny to be mine, that which a victor could have for his own: Not to have feared to die, not to have yielded to any equal in firmness of nature, and to have preferred a courageous death to a noncombatant life.”
“They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have n...”
Giordano Bruno
“Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.”
Giordano Bruno
“Chi vuole che la quaresima gli paia corta, si faccia debito per pagare a Pasqua.”
Giordano Bruno
“Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato.”
Giordano Bruno
“Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam.”
Giordano Bruno