Amore Quotes
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Nel suo profondo vidi che s'interna,legato con amore in un volume,ciò che per l'universo si squaderna.
dante alighieri— I saw within Its depth how It conceives all things in a single volume bound by Love, of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
— Canto XXXIII, lines 85-87
— The Portable Dante : Revised Edition (Viking Portable Library) (Paperback) Mark Musa, Translator.
Chi ha amore in seno sempre ha i sproni in fiance.
bernardo dovizi— Act II, scene VII — (Samia).
— Translation: He who has love in his breast has ever the spurs at his flanks.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 264.
L’amor non si paga se non con amore.
alessandro piccolomini— Act I., Scene IV. — (Alessandro).
— Translation: Love is never paid for save with love.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 332.
[N]eque assueto mutet amore torum.
sextus propertius— Never change when love has found its home.
— I, i, 36
Stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore.
virgil— Each in pathetic suppliance stands,
So may he first be ferried o'er,
And stretches out his helpless hands
In yearning for the further shore.Lines 313–314 (translated by John Conington).Variant translations:There all stood begging to be first across
And reached out longing hands to the far shore.They stood, pleading to be the first ferried across,
and stretched out hands in yearning for the farther shore.They stood begging to be the first to make the voyage over
and they reached out their hands in longing for the further shore.
Chi pecca per amore, io non riprendo.
niccolò forteguerri— VIII, 80.Translation: I blame not him who for love’s sake doth sin.Translation reported in Harbottle’s Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 269.
(Ma) vince amore amor di padre ogni altro amore.
niccolò forteguerri— XVIII, 64.Translation: A father’s love all other love outshines.Translation reported in Harbottle’s Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 438.
Expugnatus autem a quadam, quasi amore suo deperiret, cum perductae pro concubitu sestertia quadringenta donasset, admonente dispensatore, quem ad modum summam rationibus vellet inferri, "Vespasiano," inquit, "adamato".
suetonius— Once a woman declared that she was desperately in love with him, and he took her to bed with him. "How shall I enter that item in your expense ledger?" asked his accountant later, on learning that she had got 4,000 gold pieces out of him; and Vespasian replied, "Just put it down to 'passion for Vespasian'".Ch. 22
Un'immoralità predicata è più punibile di un'azione immorale. Si arriva all'assassinio per amore o per odio; alla propaganda dell'assassinio solo per malvagità.
italo svevo— A preached immorality is more to be punished than an immoral action. You arrive at murder through love or through hate; you propogandize murder only through wickedness.P. 28; p. 34.
Chi pecca per amore, io non riprendo.
— VIII, 80.
— Translation: I blame not him who for love’s sake doth sin.
— Translation reported in Harbottle’s Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 269.
(Ma) vince amore amor di padre ogni altro amore.
— XVIII, 64.
— Translation: A father’s love all other love outshines.
— Translation reported in Harbottle’s Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 438.
[N]eque assueto mutet amore torum.
— Never change when love has found its home.
— I, i, 36
Me vero primum dulces ante omnia Musae, Quarum sacra fero ingenti percussus amore, Accipiant caelique vias et sidera monstrent, Defectus solis varios lunaeque labores; Unde tremor terris, qua vi maria alta tumescant Obicibus ruptis rursusque in se ipsa residant. Quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles Hiberni, vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.
— And ye sister Muses whom I love
With sacred fervour all the world above,
O take me for your seer: give me to know
The ways of Heaven above and Earth below,
The paths sidereal, and the moon's new birth,
The sun's eclipses, and the throes of Earth,
And by what force it is the rising tide
O'erflows the marsh, or how its waves subside;
Why Sol in winter hurries to his rest,
And by what laws are summer nights comprest.
— Book II, lines 475–482 (translated by J. B. Rose).
Stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore.
— There all stood begging to be first across
And reached out longing hands to the far shore.
— They stood, pleading to be the first ferried across,
and stretched out hands in yearning for the farther shore.
— They stood begging to be the first to make the voyage over
and they reached out their hands in longing for the further shore.
"Or se' tu quel Virgilio e quella fonte che spandi di parlar sì largo fiume?", rispuos' io lui con vergognosa fronte. "O de li altri poeti onore e lume, vagliami 'l lungo studio e 'l grande amore che m'ha fatto cercar lo tuo volume. Tu se' lo mio maestro e 'l mio autore, tu se' solo colui da cu' io tolsi lo bello stilo che m'ha fatto onore."
dante alighieri— "Now, art thou that Virgilius and that fountain
Which spreads abroad so wide a river of speech?"
I made response to him with bashful forehead.
"O, of the other poets honour and light,
Avail me the long study and great love
That have impelled me to explore thy volume!
Thou art my master, and my author thou,
Thou art alone the one from whom I took
The beautiful style that has done honour to me."
— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno, Canto I, lines 79–87 (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
Quicumque vero famosus probitate miles in eadem erat unius coloris vestibus atque armis utebatur facete etiam mulieres consimilia indumenta habentes. Nullius amorem habere dignabantur nisi tercio in milicia probates esset. Efficiebantur ergo caste et meliores et milites pro amore illarum probiores.
— The knights in [Britain] that were famous for feats of chivalry, wore their clothes and arms all of the same colour and fashion: and the women also no less celebrated for their wit, wore all the same kind of apparel; and esteemed none worthy of their love, but such as had given a proof of their valour in three several battles. Thus was the valour of the men an encouragement for the women's chastity, and the love of the women a spur to the soldier's bravery.
— Bk. 9, ch. 13; pp. 244-5.
— Sometimes said to be the earliest reference to love as an ennobling influence.
Però che amore è quel che dà la gloria,E che fa l'omo degno ed onorato,amore è quel che dona la vittoria,E dona ardire al cavalliero armato
matteo maria boiardo— Love is the source of glory andBrings worth and honor to a man,For victory is what Love grants;Love makes an armed knight valiant.
— Bk. 2, Canto 18, st. 3
Me vero primum dulces ante omnia Musae, Quarum sacra fero ingenti percussus amore, Accipiant caelique vias et sidera monstrent, Defectus solis varios lunaeque labores; Unde tremor terris, qua vi maria alta tumescant Obicibus ruptis rursusque in se ipsa residant. Quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles Hiberni, vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.
virgil— And ye sister Muses whom I love
With sacred fervour all the world above,
O take me for your seer: give me to know
The ways of Heaven above and Earth below,
The paths sidereal, and the moon's new birth,
The sun's eclipses, and the throes of Earth,
And by what force it is the rising tide
O'erflows the marsh, or how its waves subside;
Why Sol in winter hurries to his rest,
And by what laws are summer nights comprest.Book II, lines 475–482 (translated by J. B. Rose).
