Bisognan di valor segni più chiari,
Che por con leggiadria la lancia in resta:
Ma fortuna anco più bisogna assai;
Che senza, val virtù raro o non mai.
Canto XVI, stanza 46 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Bisognan di valor segni più chiari, Che por con leggiadria la lancia in resta: Ma fortuna anco più bisogna assai; Che senza, val virtù raro o non mai.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
As quoted in Hannibal : Enemy of Rome (1992) by Leonard Cottrell, p. 150.
“War calls for strategy: valour is less praiseworthy in a commander.”
Bellandum est astu; leuior laus in duce dextrae.
Book V, line 100
Punica
“Manhood is tested by trial, and valour climbs unterrified the rocky path and difficult ascent that leads to glory.”
Explorant adversa viros, perque aspera duro
nititur ad laudem virtus interrita clivo.
Book IV, lines 603–604
Punica
Ce que nous prenons pour des vertus n'est souvent qu'un assemblage de diverses actions et de divers intérêts, que la fortune ou notre industrie savent arranger; et ce n'est pas toujours par valeur et par chasteté que les hommes sont vaillants, et que les femmes sont chastes.
Maxim 1.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
"The Scientific Revolution and the Machine"
The Common Sense of Science (1951)
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
1950's, On Being a Graphic Artist', 1953
Context: The result of the struggle between the thought and the ability to express it, between dream and reality, is seldom more than a compromise or an approximation. Thus there is little chance that we will succeed in getting through to a large audience, and on the whole we are quite satisfied if we are understood and appreciated by a small number of sensitive, receptive people.
