La donna ? sopra la pecunia, come il sol sopra il ghiaccio, che del continue lo strugge e consume.
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Act V, scene I. — (Samia.)
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Translation: Woman over money is like the sun upon ice, which is all the time: melting and consuming it.
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Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 340.Bernardo Dovizi
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On June 22nd, [1633,] in the morning, in the great hall of the Convent of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, Galileo was found guilty of holding a false doctrine. He went down on his knees and both abjured and condemned his own errors. He swore never to argue such doctrines again. It was thus definitely confirmed that the sun did rotate around the earth...Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. Saint Mary Over Minerva. Power over wisdom.
John Ralston Saul
L’uomo saggio sopra del suo dosso
Non deve portar peso che lo sfianchi,
Onde dica piangendo : io non lo posso.Niccolo Forteguerri
"But if armies turn / an heroes disappear / if it's us now / who start making war / don't smile, the shoots above / are for you!"
(from Gli Spari Sopra, 1993)Vasco Rossi
Io vi conforto di convertirvi a Dio, vivere come ? obbligato ogni buon cristiano, dolervi del passato e ridurvi alla piet?. Altrimenti, io vi annunzio che ? sopra di voi imminente un gran flagello, e sarete flagellato nella roba, nella persona e nella casa vostra.
Vi annunzio ancora, che della vostra vita ce n' ? per poco; che, se non farete quel che vi dico, anderete nell'inferno; e questa lettera vi sar? presentata innanzi al tribunale di Dio, n? vi potrete scusare.Girolamo Savonarola
But such consumption is not consistent with the actual habits of the generality of capitalists. The great object of their lives is to save a fortune, both because it is their duty to make a provision for their families, and because they cannot spend an income with so much comfort to themselves, while they are obliged perhaps to attend a counting house for seven or eight hours a day...
...There must therefore be a considerable class of persons who have both the will and power to consume more material wealth then they produce, or the mercantile classes could not continue profitably to produce so much more than they consume.Thomas Malthus
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