The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
[It., L'ape e la serpe spesso
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The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
[It., L'ape e la serpe spesso
Suggon l'istesso umore.]

Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
[Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]

Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
[Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]

And but two ways are offered to our will,
Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,
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And but two ways are offered to our will,
Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,
The problem still for us and all of human race.

Our similarities are different.

Our similarities are different.

They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?

They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?

There are fagots and fagots.
[Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]

There are fagots and fagots.
[Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]

Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou
art any one of the multitude may be.
[Lat., Hoc ego, tuque sumus: set quod sum, non potes esse:
Tu quod es, e populo quilibet esse potest.]

Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.

Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.