Latin phrases in English
Humanum genus est avidum nimis auricularum. (Lucrezio) Mankind is too greedy for lies. Vita brevis, ars longa, occasio praeceps, experimentum …
John Florio quotes
If this done it may please you, as I wish it may, and I hope it shall, I with you …
100 famous proverbs
Proverbs where largely collected and used by my old friend John Florio, but of course they were created and employed …
Naval words heritage
England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between …
Origin of Proverbs
Proverbs can express both the wisdom and the stupidity of the different cultures and peoples that characterize our small earthly …
Quotations on shit
Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater! Gilles Deleuze You have less honour than a piece of shit. …
John Florio biography
Forgive thy friends: they would, but cannot praise, inough’ the wit, art, language of thy PLAYES: forgive thy foes; they …
Quotations on Italy
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