The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.

William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.

William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Opera e fonti

John Bartlett · Familiar Quotations (9ª edizione, 1905) · William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Il riscontro del testo nella fonte non equivale a una revisione filologica. Le traduzioni AI sono indicate come tali.

Good wine needs no bush.

William Shakespeare · As You Like It. Epilogue.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

L’amore non vede cogli occhi del corpo, ma con quelli dell’anima, ed ecco perchè l’alato Cupido è dipinto cieco;

Traduzione nell’edizione citata

William Shakespeare · A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.