La via d'onor della salute è via. - Torquato Tasso

Ahi crudo Amor! ch' egualmente n'ancide L'assénzio, e'l mel, che tu sra noi dispensi, E d'ogni tempo egualmente mortali Vengon da te le medicine e i mali.

In what a narrow circuit, among what
abandoned solitudes your fame lies bound!
Amid vast seas your island earth is shut,
though "vast" or "ocean", or what words resound
to name that sea, are idle names and fond,
for what it is: a shallow bog, a pond.

No need for death,
For to wring two hearts
First faith sufficed and then love.