Es imposible hallar al caballo perfecto en todos los aspectos
Séneca añade: El sabio no debe despreciar a nadie, sino enseñar lo que sabe sin presunción u orgullo. Y las cosas que desconozca no debe avergonzarse de aprenderlas e inquirirlas de sus inferiores.
Go litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye,Ther God thi makere yet, er that he dye,So sende myght to make in som comedye!But litel book, no makyng thow n'envie,But subgit be to alle poesye;And kis the stepp...
And shame it is, if that a priest take keep, To see a shitten shepherd and clean sheep:
Alas the day that gave me birth! Worse then my prison is the endless earth,
¿De qué sirve tener posesiones si un hombre carece de conocimientos?
Opta por el no antes que por el sí cuando puedas hacer algo de lo que luego te arrepentirás.
One night the citizens of Rome revolted Against his tyrannies and mad ambition And, when he heard them mutiny, he bolted Alone and sought his friends for coalition. The more he knocked and begged them...
«Todo lo que se escribe, se escribe para nuestra enseñanza.»
Una vez que algo está escrito, debe necesariamente suceder)
O woman’s counsel is so often cold! A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, Made Adam out of Paradise to go Where he had been so merry, so well at ease.
Los timadores, al final, acaban siendo ellos mismos timados.
By nature, men love newfangledness.
La nobleza no depende de las posesiones, ya que la gente no siempre se ajusta al modelo,
Yet from the wise take this for common sense That to the poor all times are out of joint Therefore beware of reaching such a point.
Truly she was of elegant deportment, and very pleasing and amiable in bearing. She took pains to counterfeit the manners of the court and to be dignified in behavior and to be held worthy of reverence...
Shepherds too soft who let their duty sleep, Encourage wolves to tear the lambs and sleep.
Prefería tener en la cabecera de su cama los 20 libros de Aristóteles encuadernados en negro o en rojo que vestidos lujosos, el violín y el salterio.
Out of the gosple he tho wordes caughte,And this figure he added eek therto,That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste,No wonder is a lewed man to ruste;And shame...
He was an easy man to mete out Penance when a good gift he expected to receive. Forsooth, to donate generously unto a poor Order is a sign that a man is well shriven. For if a man gave, the Friar dare...