
Source: The Gay Science
An Hymne in Honour of Beautie, line 139
Source: The Gay Science
God and Man
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 15 (p. 163)
Vanity Fair; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Ben è un ramo senza foglia,
Fiume senz' acqua e casa senza via,
La gentilezza senza cortesia.
LXIV, 61
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more,
And in that more lie all his hopes of good.”
To An Independent Preacher