“For in a world so mutable and blind
it's often constancy to change one's mind.”

— Torquato Tasso

Chè nel mondo mutabile e leggiero,
Costanza è spesso il variar pensiero.
Canto V, stanza 3 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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Ché nel mondo mutabile e leggiero | costanza è spesso il variar pensiero.

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Gerusalemme liberata
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Costanza è spesso il variar pensiero.

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Italian poet 1544–1595

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