
L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; comme per il contrario, l'imitazione del bene è sempre inferiore.
Storia d' Italia (1537-1540)
L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; comme per il contrario, l'imitazione del bene è sempre inferiore.
Storia d' Italia (1537-1540)
“When Fame, O monarch! good or evil tells,
Evil or good beyond the truth she swells.”
Book XXXVIII, line 327
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
“For God loves to save and not to condemn; therefore is he patient with evil, that out of evil good may be brought.”
Non enim amat Deus damnare sed salvare, et ideo patiens est in malos, ut de malis faciat bonos.
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Sermons
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Context: Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new. Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old. So the mind is a modifier, a reactor; a renovator, but it cannot create the new.
“See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.”
“Love is not always evil, truth to tell;
Though harm he does, he serves the good as well.”
Dunque Amor sempre rio non si ritrova:
Se spesso nuoce, anco talvolta giova.
Canto XXV, stanza 2 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)