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/

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People spend the first half of their life ruining their health and the

second half trying to recover.

L'uomo passa la prima metà della sua vita a rovinarsi la salute e la seconda metà alla ricerca di guarire.

/Leonardo da Vinci/

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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And forever means never again.

E per sempre vuol dire mai più. /Angelo Branduardi/

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”.

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E' purtroppo destino ineluttabile che il tempo distrugga ogni cosa nel suo fluire perenne.

/Ugo Foscolo/

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.

Il tempo è un gioco meravigliosamente interpretato dai bambini. /Heraclitus/

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

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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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