Translation: Fortune’s a goddess without brains, and so The whole day long she’s doing foolish things. - Niccolò Forteguerri

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(Che) il cercar di sapere
saper quel che saputo
Accresce duolo, non m’è mai piaciuto.

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Translation: None knows how deep, how far beyond all bounds
The pity that by God on man is showered;
For ’tis immeasurable, and its power
To pardon far exceeds our power to sin.

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Ne le guerre d’Amore
Amor (proverbio è trito,)
Vince chi fugge, e non chi si cimenta.

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