Jacopo Sannazaro Quotations

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned.

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of a woman. [It., Ne l'onde solca, e ne l'arena semina, E'l vago vento spera in rete acogliere Chi sue speranze fonda in cor di femina.]

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned. [Lat., Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima.]

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.