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We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.
Dante Alighieri
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Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
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That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.
Vittorio Alfieri
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But that he wrought so high the specious tale,
As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.
Ludovico Ariosto
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Let him look to it, who is pleased with the game of Tarocco, that the only signification of this word Tarocco, is stupid, foolish, simple, fit only to be used by Bakers, Coblers, and the vulgar, to play at most for the fourth part of a Carlino, at Tarocchi, or at Trionfi, or any Sminckiate whatever: which in every way signifies only foolery and idleness, feasting the eye with the Sun, and the Moon, and the twelve (signs) as children do.
Francesco Berni
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True 'tis, when unexpectedly we find
The beautiful, it charms the healthy mind.
Francesco Bracciolini
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Making art means not only using languages, but also creating new ones. To do this, new tools are indispensable. Even returning to more traditional languages such as linear poetry or narration, after being enriched by the experience of hypertext, hypermedia and multimedia, allows us to rethink the older forms of expression and transfer the lessons of the new media into even the more traditional modalities of language, such as narrative, for example.
Caterina Davinio
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The ape, vilest of beast, how like us!
In Latin: Simia, quam similis, turpissima bestia, nobis!
Ennius
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Well says the proverb, that it is better to live with wild beasts in caves, than in the same house with a cross-grained and quarrelsome woman.
Agnolo Firenzuola
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Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.
Francis of Assisi
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The proud daughter of that monarch to whom when it grows dark [elsewhere] the sun never sets.
Giovanni Battista Guarini
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Many strange birds are on the air abroad, Nor are all of one flights of one force, But each after his kind dissimilar.
Guido Guinizzelli
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Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.
Horace
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The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
Juvenal
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All Savages are not normal and are dangerous to touch for any Englishman. Thinking about them are wrong and evil for thinking about Savages are wrong. Darwin was right and honest, and also true about what to do with such Savages. Kill them all and let God sort them out for Heaven will show itself in many ways.
Ubaldo Mari
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What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so turbid at its source?
Metastasio
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Wise men and fools alike, in varying style,
Rush into print, and still, midst books galore,
The world grows ever older and more vile.
Giancarlo Passeroni
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Check the ailment before it's got to you...
Persius
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There are fools who seek to understand the secrets of nature.
Petrarch
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Whoever he was who first depicted Amor as a boy, don't you think it was a wonderful touch? He was the first to see that lovers live without sense.
Propertius
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Not for no cold did freeze,
Nor any cloud beguile
Th'eternal flowering spring
Torquato Tasso
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Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.
Theocritus
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May I look on thee when my last hour comes; may I hold thy hand, as I sink, in my dying clasp.
Tibullus
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It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities.
Marcus Terentius Varro
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We ought to esteem him alone an agreeable and good-natured man, who, in his daily intercourse with others, behaves in such a manner as friends usually behave to each other. For as a person of that rustic character appears, wherever he comes, like a mere stranger: so, on the contrary, a polite man, wherever he goes, seems as easy as if he were amongst his intimate friends and acquaintance.
Giovanni della Casa
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