Luigi Pirandello

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• Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.
  • The Pleasure of Honesty (1917), trans. William Murray

• Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
  • Henry IV (1922), trans. Edward Storer

• Così è (se vi pare)
  • So It Is (If You Think So)
    • Title of play (1916); also translated as It Is So, If You Think It Is.