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21 " He kept his tippet stuffed with pins for curls, And pocket-knives, to give to pretty girls. "
― Geoffrey Chaucer , The Canterbury Tales
22 " la virtud que corona la perfección es la paciencia". "
23 " Three years went by in happiness and health; He bore himself so well in peace and war That there was no one Theseus valued more. "
24 " Though there was nowhere one so busy as he/ He was less busy than he seemed to be. "
25 " The time always flees; it will wait for no man. And through you are still in the flower of your young manhood, age creeps on steadily, as quiet as a stone, and death meanaces every age and strikes in every rank, for no one escapes. As surely as we know that we will die, so we are uncertain of the day when death shall fall on us. "
26 " Truly she was of elegant deportment, and very pleasing and amiable in bearing. She took pains to counterfeit the manners of the court and to be dignified in behavior and to be held worthy of reverence. "
27 " Well did he know the taverns in every town, and every hosteller and bar-maid, far better than he knew any leper or beggar. "
28 " Yet from the wise take this for common sense That to the poor all times are out of joint Therefore beware of reaching such a point. "
29 " Full is my heart of revelry and grace." But suddenly he fell in grievous case; For ever the latter end of joy is woe. God knows that worldly joys do swiftly go; And if a rhetorician could but write, He in some chronicle might well indite And mark it down as sovereign in degree. "
30 " But of no nombre mencioun made he, Of bigamye, or of octogamye33. Why sholde men thanne speke of it vileinye34? "
31 " Jesús de Sirach afirma: «Quien tiene el corazón alegre y contento se conserva vigoroso a través de los años, pero un corazón entristecido reseca los huesos». "
32 " For naturally a beast desires to flee From any enemy that he may see, Though never yet he's clapped on such his eye. "
33 " nadie debe echar sobre sus espaldas fardo que no pueda llevar. "
34 " Well is it said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour. "
35 " ¿De qué sirve tener posesiones si un hombre carece de conocimientos? "
36 " A faithful servant is more diligent in keeping your goods safe than is your own wife, because she will claim a half part of your worth all her life. "
37 " Lo que comenzó mal, rara vez y con muchísima dificultad concluirá bien". "
38 " El hombre favorecido por la Fortuna se convierte en un imbécil integral. "
39 " «El león está siempre al acecho para matar al inocente si puede.» "
40 " By Pluto sent at the request of Saturn. Arcita’s horse in terror danced a pattern And leapt aside and foundered as he leapt, And ere he was aware Arcite was swept Out of the saddle and pitched upon his head Onto the ground, and there he lay for dead; His breast was shattered by the saddle-bow. "