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Un palazzo del quale si conoscessero tutte le stanze non era degno di essere abitato.
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Non può essere superiore di consigli, chi è inferiore di costumi.

bernardo dovizi

— Act I, scene II. — (Polinico).
— Translation: He cannot be the better in counsels who is the worse in morals.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 377.

Tags: pu, superiore, inferiore, costumi

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È meglio essere capo di Lucerta che coda di Dracone.

stefano guazzo

— Dell'Honore, p. 297.
— Translation: It is better to be the head of a lizard than the tail of a dragon.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 294.

Tags: meglio, capo, Lucerta, coda, Dracone

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Io iudico bene questo, che sia meglio essere impetuoso che respettivo; perché la fortuna è donna, et è necessario, volendola tenere sotto, batterla et urtarla. E si vede che la si lascia più vincere da questi, che da quelli che freddamente procedano. E però sempre, come donna, è amica de' giovani, perché sono meno respettivi, più feroci e con più audacia la comandano.


— Translation: I conclude, then, that so long as Fortune varies and men stand still, they will prosper while they suit the times, and fail when they do not. But I do feel this: that it is better to be rash than timid, for Fortune is a woman, and the man who wants to hold her down must beat and bully her. We see that she yields more often to men of this stripe than to those who come coldly toward her.
— Ch. 25 (as translated by RM Adams)

Tags: Io, questo, sia, meglio, perch, fortuna, donna, tenere, sotto

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Niuno dee essere in una medesima cosa avvocato e giudice.

bartholomew of san concordio

— Part 165.
Translation: It is not right that any one should be advocate and judge in the same case.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 370.

Tags: dee, una, medesima, cosa, avvocato, giudice

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È meglio essere capo di Lucerta che coda di Dracone.


— Dell'Honore, p. 297.
— Translation: It is better to be the head of a lizard than the tail of a dragon.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 294.

Tags: meglio, capo, Lucerta, coda, Dracone

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Io…vorrei che il giovane quando si mette a scrivere, non pensasse mai ad essere né melodista, né realista, né idealista, né avvenirista, né tutti i diavoli che si portino queste pedanterie. La melodia e l’ armonia non devono essere che mezzi nella mano dell'artista per fare della Musica , e se verrà un giorno in cui non si parlerà più né di melodia né di armonia né di scuole tedesche, italiane, né di passato né di avvenire ecc. ecc. ecc. allora forse comincierà il regno dell'arte.


— I wish that every young man when he begins to write music would not concern himself with being a melodist, a harmonist, a realist, an idealist or a futurist or any other such devilish pedantic things. Melody and harmony should be simply tools in the hands of the artist, with which he creates music; and if a day comes when people stop talking about the German school, the Italian school, the past, the future, etc., etc., then art will perhaps come into its own.
— Letter to Opprandino Arrivabene, July 14, 1875, cited from Julian Budden Le opere di Verdi (Torino: E.D.T., 1986) vol. 2, p. 60; translation from Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols (eds.) Composers on Music (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997) p. 126

Tags: Iovorrei, giovane, quando, mette, scrivere, pensasse, mai, ad, melodista

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Copiare il vero può essere una buona cosa, ma inventare il vero è meglio, molto meglio.


— To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
— Letter to Clara Maffei, October 20, 1876, cited from James P. Cassaro (ed.) Music, Libraries and the Academy (Middleton, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, 2007) p. 218; translation from the same source.

Tags: Copiare, vero, pu, una, buona, cosa, ma, inventare, meglio

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