“I panni rifanno le stanghe.”
“Fine feathers make fine birds.”
“I pazzi ridono
“Fools laugh at little things.”
“I pesci grossi stanno al fondo.”
“The big fish at the bottom lie.”
“I poeti nascono : acconciatela come volete.”
“Poets are born : account for it as you will.”
“I popoli mordono più fieramente poi ch’ egli hanno ricuperata la.
liberty, che poich6 1’ hanno conservata.”
“A nation bites more shrewdly when it has recovered its liberty than when
it has preserved it.”
“I re che ha sul collo, son quel che merté.”
“Well she deserves the yoke that’s on her laid.”
“I savi a morte mena
II saver, se non é l’alma prudente.”
“Learning the learned leads
To death, who have not prudence in their souls.”
“I savii vivono per i pazzi, e i pazzi peri savii.”
“Wise men live by the fools, and fools by the wise men.”
“I segreti del cuore non debbon aprirsi se non a chi ne può essere
veramente participi.”
Massimo d’ Azeglio. I Miei Ricordi, Cap. XXIX. (Ed. 1867, Vol. II., p. 326.)
“The secrets of the heart should only be laid bare to those who can really
share them.”
“I suoi
Gonfini ha la virtu : non merta fade
Quando a tal segno accede
La misura comune.”
“Virtue her limits has : in vain she pleads
For confidence, when she so far exceeds
The common measure.”