“Il proferire il tuo consiglio non richiesto, niuna altra cosa e, che un dire di esser più savio di colui, cui tu consigli.”
" To offer your advice unasked, is nothing else than to assert that you are wiser than he to whom you offer it.”
“Il progresso esiste, esisteva, e esistera, perché e legge de Die.”
“Progress exists, has existed, and will exist, because it is God’s law.”
“Il re obbedisce, ed il ministro regna.”
“The king obeys, the minister doth reign.
“Il Re senza lettere era come un Asino coronato.”
“A king without instruction is like a donkey crowned.”
“Il remedio b talor peggio del danno.”
“The cure is ofttimes worse than the disease.”
“Il santo vero
Mai non tradir : ne proferir mai verbo
Che plauda al vizio o la virtu derida.”
“Ne’er betray
The sacred truth, nor e’er let fall a word
In praise of vice, or mockery of virtue.”
“(Ch’) il savio non pregia uom per vestimenta,
Perche sono ornamenta,
“Not by their clothes the wise do men assay;
Mere ornaments are they;
But by their cultured minds and noble hearts.”
“Il sesso vostro saria assai più bello
Se aveste meno lingua e più cervello.”
“Your sex methinks would be as fair again.
If you had much less tongue and much more brain.”
“(Ch’) il si e ’l no tututto in vestra mano
Ha posto Amore.”
“Love in your hand th’ unfettered power hath placed
Of ‘Yes’ and ‘No’.”
“Il Signore ognor provede
“For him will God provide
Who doth in Him confide.”
