Italian Quotations
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People spend the first half of
their life ruining their health and the second half trying to recover.
/Leonardo da Vinci/
And forever means never again.
/Angelo Branduardi/
Unfortunately it is inevitable that
time destroys everything in its
constant flowing.
/Ugo Foscolo/
Time is a game played
beautifully by children.
/Heraclitus/
How much time the man saves who
doesn’t care about what his neighbour says or thinks.
/Marco Aurelio/
L'uomo passa la prima metà della sua vita a rovinarsi la salute e la
seconda metà alla ricerca di guarire.
/Leonardo da Vinci/
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People spend the first half of
their life ruining their health and the
second half trying to recover.
Leonardo da Vinci was
born near Empoli (Italy)
on 15 April 1452 and he
was a Renaissance
man. He painted,
sculptured, dissected
bodies and designed
buildings. He pursued
knowledge and self
enlightenment in a
variety of ways. He died
in France on 2 May
1519.
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E per sempre vuol dire mai più.
/Angelo Branduardi/
And forever means never again.
Branduardi was born in Cuggiono on
February 12, 1950, in a small town in
the province of Milan, but early
moved with his family to Genoa. He
was educated as a classical violinist
in the local school of music. At the
age of 18 he composed the music for
the “Confessioni di un malandrino”.
The first released album, “Angelo
Branduardi '74” was arranged with
Paul Buckmaster.He published a lot
of albums as “ Colori”, “Canzoni”,
“Alla fiera dell’est”, “L’uovo o la
gallina”, “La pulce d’acqua” and the
latest “Cercando l’oro”.
E' purtroppo destino ineluttabile che il tempo distrugga ogni
cosa nel suo fluire perenne.
/Ugo Foscolo/
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Unfortunately it is inevitable that time destroys everything
in its constant flowing.
Niccolò Ugo Foscolo, an
Italian poet and writer, was
born on the Greek island of
Zante, 6 February 1778, son
of the Venetian Andrea
Foscolo. He wrote some of
the most important literary
works of the XVIII century.
He died on 10 September
1827 at only forty-nine.
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Il tempo è un gioco meravigliosamente
interpretato dai bambini. /Heraclitus/
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
Ηράκλειτος
(Herakleitos;
Heraclitus) of
Ephesus (c.535 BC 475 BC) was a
Greek philosopher,
known for his
doctrine of change
central to the
universe, and for
establishing the term
Logos (λόγος) in
Western philosophy.
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“Quanto tempo risparmia chi non sta a guardare ciò che il
suo vicino dice o pensa”
/Marco Aurelio/
How much time the man saves who doesn’t care about what his neighbour
says or thinks.
Marco Aurelio: Caesar Marco
Aurelio
Antonino
Augusto
(Rome,
April
26,
121/
Vindobona, 17 March 180) was
a
Roman
emperor
and
philosopher. He was adopted
in 138 by his uncle Antonino
Pio that named him his heir to
the imperial throne. He was
emperor from 161 AD to his
death.
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"It isn’t true that we have little time: the truth is that we lose a lot of it."
/Lucio Anneo Seneca /
Time changes the colour of things, even of memories.
/Licia Troisi/
Time you like throwing out,
it’s not thrown out.
/John Winston Lennon/
A pipe gives the wise man time
to think, the idiot something to
put in his mouth.
/Petra Trischmann/
You will be less dependant on the future if you hold the present
/Lucio Anneo Seneca/
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Non è vero che abbiamo poco tempo: la verità è che ne
perdiamo molto.
/Seneca/
It isn’t true that we have little time: the truth is that we lose a lot of it.
Seneca: Lucio Anneo
Seneca,
(Cordoba,
May 21, 4 B.C./ Rome
65 AD ), was a Roman
Stoic
philosopher,
statesman,
dramatist
and
tutor
to
the
emperor Nero. He was
later forced to commit
suicide for complicity in
the Pisonian conspiracy
even if he may have
been innocent.
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Il tempo cambia il volto delle cose, anche dei ricordi.
/Licia Troisi/
Time changes the colour of things, even of memories.
Licia Troisi was born in
1980. Among her many
interests
(reading,
drawing, music, comic
books), there are also
social activities. She
works as a guide at the
Astronomical
Observatory of Rome
Monteporzio Catone.
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