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Aetati tuae, Mi Tiberi, noli in hac re indulgere et nimium indignari quemquam esse, qui de me male loquatur; satis est enim, si hoc habemus ne quis nobis male facere possit.
augustus— My dear Tiberius, you must not give way to youthful emotion or take it to heart if anyone speaks ill of me; let us be satisfied if we can make people stop short at unkind words.Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 51. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
Mi advise to them who are about tu begin, in arnest, the jurneyov life, istu take their harte in one hand and a club in the other.
— 1865 Josh Billings, His Sayings, ch.71.
Mi culpa marcha tan lenta que siempre la alcanzan el perdón y el olvido.
marco denevi— Translation: My guilt walks so slowly that forgiveness and oblivion always catch up with it.
Mi è impossibile cingere i fianchi di una ragazza con il mio braccio destro e serrare il suo sorriso nella mia mano sinistra, per poi tentare di studiare i due oggetti separatamente. Allo stesso modo, non ci è possibile separare la vita dalla materia vivente, allo scopo di studiare la sola materia vivente e le sue reazioni. Inevitabilmente, studiando la materia vivente e le sue reazioni, studiamo la vita stessa.
albert szent-györgyi— It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself
— The Nature of Life, Academic press, 1948
E si tot venta'ill freg'aura, L'amor qu'ins el cor Mi pleu Mi ten caut on plus iverna.
arnaut daniel— And even if the cold wind blows,
The love that rains in my heart
Keeps me the warmer the colder it is."Ab gai so cundet e leri", line 12; translation by Leonardo Malcovati [1]
Yo persigo una forma que no encuentra Mi estilo, boto n de pensamiento que busca ser la rosa; se anuncia con un beso que en mis labios se posa al abrazo imposible de laVenus de Milo. I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose; it is heralded by a kiss that is placed on my lips in the impossible embrace of theVenus de Milo.
— 1896 Prosas profanas,'Yo persigo una forma?' (translated as'I seek a form?',1922).
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura che la diritta via era smarrita. In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood where the straight path was lost.
Dante (originally Durante) Alighieri— c.1320 Divina Commedia,'Inferno', canto1, l.1-3.
Yo he conocido cantores que era un gusto el escuchar; mas no quieren opinar y se divierten cantando; pero yo canto opinando, que es Mi modo de cantar. I have known singers it was a pleasure to listen to; theyamuse themselves singing and don't care to give opinions; but I sing giving opinions and that's my kind of song.
Jose Hernandez— 1879 La vuelta de Mart| n Fierro, pt.1 (translated as Mart| n Fierro, 1923).
Antes que me hubiera apasionado por mujer alguna, jugue Mi corazo n al azar y me lo gano la violencia. Before I felt passion for any woman, I gambled my heart and lost it to violence.
— 1924 La vora gine, pt.1 (translated asTheVortex,1935).
Amor, ch'al cor gentil ratto s'apprende,prese costui de la bella personache Mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende.
dante alighieri— Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart,seized this man for the fair form that wastaken from me, and the manner still hurts me.
— Canto V, lines 100-102.
Se tu se’ or, lettore, a creder lentociò ch’io dirò, non sarà maraviglia,ché io che ’l vidi, a pena il Mi consento.
dante alighieri— Reader, if thou to credit what is hereArt slow, 'tis no surprise, since I can scarceBelieve, who saw it all as clear as clear.
— Canto XXV, lines 46-48.
"Me gusta el sol, Aliciay las palomas, el buen cigarroy la guitarra española,saltar paredes y abrir las ventanasy cuando llora una mujer.Me gusta el vino tanto como las floresy los conejos pero no los tractores,el pan casero y la voz de Doloresy el mar mojándome los pies,no soy de aqui ni soy de alláno tengo edad Mi porvenir y ser felízes Mi color de identidad."
— "I like the sun, Aliceand doves, a good cigar,a spanish guitar, jumping wallsand opening windowsand when a woman cries.I like wine as much as flowersand rabbits but not tractors,homemade bread and Dolores' voiceand the sea wetting my feet.I like to always be lying on the sandor chasing Manuela on a bicycleor all the time to see the starswith Maria in the hayfield.I'm not from here, I'm not from there,I have no age, nor future,and being happy is my color of identity."
Un contadino che Mi dà il suo pezzo di pecorino Mi fa un regalo più grande di Giulio Làscari quando m’invita a pranzo. Il guaio è che il pecorino Mi dà la nausea; e così non resta che la gratitudine che non si vede e il naso arricciato dal disgusto che si vede fin troppo.
giuseppe tomasi di lampedusa— When a peasant gives me his bit of cheese he's making me a bigger present than the Prince of Làscari when he invites me to dinner. That's obvious. The difficulty is that the cheese is nauseating. So all that remains is the heart's gratitude which can't be seen and the nose wrinkled in disgust which can be seen only too well.
— Page 144
Penso che una vita per la musica sia una vita spesa bene ed è a questo che Mi sono dedicato.
Luciano Pavarotti— I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I have devoted my life to.
— As quoted at a
Io per Mi pensava che in un giovine l’esser innamorato fusse il condimento di tutte le sue virtù, e che se ben alcun fusse una profonda sentina di vitii, Amor fusse bastante a sollevarlo in un momento fino a le stelle.
alessandro piccolomini— Act I., Scene I. — (Fabritio).
— Translation: I always used to think that the falling in love of a young man gave a savour to all his virtues, and that, even if he were a perfect sink of iniquity, Love would suffice in an instant to raise him to the stars.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 328.
"Powiedz Mi, czy ty mia?a? wychowanie muzyczne w szkole?""Tak.""PaMi?tasz adres szko?y? Pójd? i pod?ó? ogie?, niczego ci? nie nauczyli."
kuba wojewódzki— Translation: "Tell me if you had music lessons at school?""Yes, I had.""Do you remember this school's address? Go there and set fire to it. They taught you nothing."
Ghe pensi Mi.
Silvio Berlusconi— I'll handle it.As quoted in "The Day After" by de Gondi at The European Tribune (19 November 2007)
Que el cielo exista, aunque Mi lugar sea el infierno.
jorge luis borges— May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell."The Library of Babel" (1941)
El hecho ocurrió en el mes de febrero de 1969, al norte de Boston, en Cambridge. No lo escribí inmediatamente porque Mi primer propósito fue olvidarlo, para no perder la razón.
jorge luis borges— The event took place in the month of February of 1969, to the north of Boston, in Cambridge. I didn't write it right away because my first intention was to forget it, not to lose reason."The Other" ["El Otro"], The Book of Sand (1975)
Simul te aspexi, nihil est super Mi vocis in ore, lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus flamma demanat, sonitu suopte tintinant aures, gemina teguntur lumina nocte.
— Directly when I see you, nothing is left from the voice in my mouth,
but my tongue is paralyzed, in my limbs flows a delicate flame,
By their own sound sing my ears, my eyes are being covered by a double night.
¿Qué os espanta, si fue Mi maestro un sueño, y estoy temiendo, en mis ansias, que he de despertar y hallarme otra vez en Mi cerrada prisión? Y cuando no sea, el soñarlo sólo basta; pues así llegué a saber que toda la dicha humana, en fin, pasa como sueño.
pedro calderón de la barca— What surprises you, if a dream taught me this wisdom, and if I still fear I may wake up and find myself once more confined in prison? And even if this should not happen, merely to dream it is enough. For this I have come to know, that all human happiness finally ceases, like a dream.Segismundo, Act III, l. 1114
I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent, and you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you.
pablo neruda— "I Like for You to be Still" (Me Gustas Cuando Callas), p. 37
Solo quiero Leones en Mi regimiento.
josé de san martín— I only want Lions in my regiment.As quoted in San Martín, The Liberator (1971) by J. C. J. Metford, p. 33
O Domine Deus! speravi in te; O care Mi Jesu! nunc libera me. In dura catena, in misera poena, Disidero te. Languendo, jemendo, et genuflectendo, Adoro, imploro, ut liberes me!
— O Lord, my God,
I have trusted in Thee;
O Jesu, my dearest One,
Now set me free.
In prison's oppression,
In sorrow's obsession,
I weary for Thee.
With sighing and crying,
Bowed down in dying,
I adore Thee, I implore Thee, set me free.
— Mary, Queen of Scots; written in her Book of Devotion before her execution. Translation by Swinburne, in Mary Stuart.
Da Mi basia mille, deinde centum, Dein mille altera, dein secunda centum, Deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.
— Give me a thousand kisses, and then a hundred,
Then another thousand, then a second hundred,
And then yet another thousand, then a hundred.
— V, l. 7-9
Ille Mi par esse Deo videtur, ille, si fas est, superare Divos, qui sedens adversus identidem te spectat et audit dulce ridentem.
— He seems to me to be like a God,
even superior to the Gods, if it is
permitted to say so, the man who sits
gazing on you all day and listens to
your sweet laughter.
— LI
— Variant translation:
Like to a God he seems to me,
Above the Gods, if so may be,
Who sitting often close to thee
May see and hear
Thy lovely laugh.
Déjen Mi hombre-
— Translated: Let my man-
— Who: Luisa Fortuna
— Note: After John witnesses the war crimes being carried out in Escalera by the Mexican Army, he comes across Abraham Reyes about to be executed by Raul Zubieta, an officer, and two of his men. As John tries to negotiate Reyes' release, Luisa comes out of nowhere and charges at Zubieta, wielding a knife. Zubieta and his men then shoot Luisa through the chest three times, killing her.
Ricerco un bene fuori di me, Non so chi 'l tiene, non so cos'è. Sospiro e gemo senza voler, Palpito e tremo senza saper, Non trovo pace notte né dì: Ma pur Mi piace languir così.
— I look for something beautiful outside of myself,
I don't know who has it, I don't know what it is.
I sigh and groan without wanting to,
I quiver and tremble without knowing it,
I find no peace night or day,
And yet I like suffering this way!
— Cherubino, Act II, sc. iii
