Pietro Nelli citations

Pietro Nelli , est un peintre italien de la fin de la période baroque de l'école florentine, actif au XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Wikipedia  

✵ 1672 – 1740
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Pietro Nelli: Citations en anglais

“Custom ’tis alone That countless follies covers and defends.”

Satire, I., V. — ""A Sansedonio.""
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 435.

“When he mixes a salad, the Devil, I’ve heard.
Three ingredients uses; first advocates’ tongues.
Next notaries’ fingers; I’ll not name the third.”

Di tre cose fa il diavolo insalata,
Di lingue d’Avvocati, e delle dite
De’ Notari, la terza è riservata.
Satire, I., IX. — "Peccadigli degli Avvocati."
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 288.

“A litigant to winning so devotes his energies
That he never gives his neighbours or himself a moment’s rest,
But for every other pleasure he has neither ears nor eyes.”

Un litigante è di vincer si ingordo,
Che non dà a se, o altrui pace o riposo,
Ma ad ogni altro piacer è cieco e sordo.
Satire, II., IX. — "Peccadigli degli Avvocati."
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 432.

“A lawyer’s office is, I’m sure you’ll find,
Just like a mill, whereto for grinding come
A crowd of folk of every sort and kind.”

L’esser d’ un’ avvocato, chi ben pensa,
E un molino, ove a macinar concorre
D’ogni sorte di genti copia immensa.
Satire, I., IX. — "Peccadigli degli Avvocati."
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 334.

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