“Reflect, ye gentle dames, that much they know,
Who gain experience from another's woe.”
John Hoole (1727–1803) British translator
Book X, line 32
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
“Reflect, ye gentle dames, that much they know,
Who gain experience from another's woe.”
— Ludovico Ariosto, book Orlando Furioso
Canto X, stanza 6 (tr. J. Hoole)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Reflect, ye gentle dames, that much they know,
Who gain experience from another's woe." by Ludovico Ariosto?
Ludovico Ariosto97
Italian poet 1474–1533Related quotes
“He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.”
Feliciter is sapit, qui alieno periculo sapit.
Mercator, Act IV, scene 7, line 40
Mercator (The Merchant)
Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870–1938) United States federal judge
Page 113
Other writings, The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)
“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773) British politician
Song; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“You stood in the belltower,
But now you're gone.
So who knows all the sights
Of Notre Dame?”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)
“Who reflects too much will accomplish little.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Act III, sc. i
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
“For whoso lives, as I, in many woes,
How can it be but death shall bring him gain?”
Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
ὅστις γὰρ ἐν πολλοῖσιν ὡς ἐγὼ κακοῖς<br>ζῇ, πῶς ὅδ᾽ οὐχὶ κατθανὼν κέρδος φέρει <br class="br">Source: Antigone, Line 463-464; Plumptre translation https://archive.org/stream/b24865898#page/444/mode/2up