Niccolò Forteguerri Quotes

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Your wife is life to you, or rope and knife.
Just as you will.

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Not frowning battlement nor lofty tower,
Not trenches wide nor river running by-
Shall save a city from her foeman's power,
But her sons' valor and fidelity.

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The hair grows grey, the nature changes never.

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A madman now and then his wits regains
But aye from bad to worse go lovers' brains.

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For never shall so firm a knot be tied
But at the last shall burst and broken be.

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Seeking to know what but augments our pain
When it is known, aye seems to me insane.

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Liberty is that
Which strippeth from us every biting care;
Alone she doth suffice, in every state,
To make him happy who erst moaned his fate.

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Who gathers knowledge, also gathers woe,
And least they sorrow feel who least do know.

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For human nature so is fashioned,
That upon tears and laughter it is fed.

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If once a maiden strays from virtue's path,
Though she have beauty, yet she nothing hath.

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The noble soul aye to the gift far less
Gives heed, than to the giver's kindliness.

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Let no man on his back, if he be wise,
A burden bind that is beyond his strength,
Whence, weeping, he 'I cannot bear it' cries.

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The memory of the blessings we have lost
Doth make our present state more pitiful.

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Men count them wondrous wise, and think themselves
Wealthy in that wherein they are but beggars,
Calling all others fools and simpletons.

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The leafy vine few grapes to ripeness brings;
Saying and doing are quite different things.

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Its troubles each condition has, and they
Who change their own a pleasanter to find.
Do but the starkest lunacy display.

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The chain that binds us when we take a wife,
Makes e'en the galleys seem a pleasant life.

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These tales as nonsense stand confessed,
And fond imaginings of scribes possessed.

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In love's engagements (sure the proverb's trite)
He wins who flies, not he who stays to fight.

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A father's love all other love outshines.

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Fortune's a goddess without brains, and so
The whole day long she's doing foolish things.

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Nature's a mighty teacher, and never errs.

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Amongst the good things by God on man bestowed,
By no means least I count the gift of wine.

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In fine, save only that he's not so fair,
Woman and man are very much a pair.

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None knows how deep, how far beyond all bounds
The pity that by God on man is showered;
For 'tis immeasurable, and its power
To pardon far exceeds our power to sin.

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