Skip to content

Nor power nor pleasure e'er can be enjoyed,
What time they with suspicion are alloyed.

— Francesco Berni

Ne la grandezza giova ne 'l diletto,
Che s'acquista o si tenga con sospetto.

Original text (French)

Another quote →

Notes from Wikiquote

XXXVII, 29

More quotes by Francesco Berni

Non vien si tardi il mal che non sia presto.

Never a man unblemished virtue shows,
Save when he is the butt of fortune's blows.

He still fought stoutly on—and he was dead.

Whoe'er he be, none more than human deem,
And each may speak as good to him doth seem.

To lose the thing we love is greater pain
Than to desire and never to obtain.

All Francesco Berni quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Francesco Berni (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.