“Hard is that heart which beauty makes not soft.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Crudel, che tal beltà turba e consuma.
Canto IV, stanza 77 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“A soft king makes a valiant people soft.”
Um fraco Rei faz fraca a forte gente.
Stanza 138, line 8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto III
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