Cosme de Médicis citations

Cosme de Médicis ou en italien Cosimo de' Medici , banquier, capitaine et homme d'État florentin, est le fondateur de la dynastie politique des Médicis, dirigeants effectifs de la république de Florence durant la majeure partie de la Renaissance italienne. Il est aussi connu sous le nom de Cosme l'Ancien ou « Cosimo Pater Patriae » . Wikipedia

✵ 27. septembre 1389 – 1. août 1464

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Cosme de Médicis: Citations en anglais

“We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”

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Cosimo de' Medici

Attributed to Cosimo de' Medici, Duke of Florence, in Apothegms by Francis Bacon, (1624) No. 206

“All those things [meaning works of art] have given me the greatest satisfaction and contentment because they are not only for the honor of God but are likewise for my own remembrance. For fifty years, I have done nothing else but earn money and spend money; and it became clear that spending money gives me greater pleasure than earning it.”

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Attributed to Cosimo de' Medici by Salviati; as cited in Taylor, F.H. (1948). The taste of angels, a history of art collecting from Rameses to Napoleon. Boston: Little, Brown. pp. 65–66.

“There is in gardens a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called envy.”

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Attributed to Cosimo de' Medici in: Jean Lucas-Dubreton (1961). Daily Life in Florence in the Time of the Medici. p. 58