Che dona e tolle ogn'altro ben Fortuna;
Sol in virtù non ha possanza alcuna.
Canto III, stanza 37 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Che dona e tolle ogn'altro ben Fortuna; Sol in virtù non ha possanza alcuna.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
La virtud es cosa de veras, todo lo demás de burlas. La capacidad y grandeza se ha de medir por la virtud, no por la fortuna. Ella sola se basta a sí misma. Vivo el hombre, le haze amable; y muerto, memorable.
Maxim 300 (p. 168)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
“Virtue has her heroes too
As well as Fame and Fortune.”
Act I, sc. vii
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
“So beautiful and fortunate
You're the one who hates to love
But he's the one who loves to hate.”
Love For Tender
Song lyrics, Get Happy!! (1980)
Epode, lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
“All mortals are equal; it is not their birth,
But virtue itself that makes the difference.”
Les mortels sont égaux; ce n'est pas la naissance,
C'est la seule vertu qui fait la différence.
Ériphyle Act II, scene I (1732); these lines were also later used in Voltaire's Mahomet, Act I, scene IV (1741)
Variant translations:
Men are equal; it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes them differ.
As quoted in Beautiful Thoughts from French and Italian Authors (1866) edited by Craufurd Tait Ramage, p. 363 https://books.google.com/books?id=nDErAAAAYAAJ
Men are equal; it is not birth
But virtue that makes the difference
Citas
“Reason is immortal, all else mortal.”
As quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Sect. 30, as translated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925); also in The Demon and the Quantum: From the Pythagorean Mystics to Maxwell's Demon (2007) by Robert J. Scully, Marlan O. Scully, p. 11
“This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.”
“Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat… between the law of love and the law of hate.”
Letter (1881), as quoted in The Conscience of Worms and the Cowardice of Lions : Cuban Politics and Culture in an American Context (1993) by Irving Louis Horowit, p. 11
