
“Gli uomini sono la città, non le mura né le navi vuote di uomini.”
Fonte?
2008
Gli uccelli
It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Birds (414 BC)
Contesto: Epops: You're mistaken: men of sense often learn from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learned from a friend, but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.
Chorus [leader]: It appears then that it will be better for us to hear what they have to say first; for one may learn something at times even from one's enemies.
(tr. Anon. 1812 rev. in Ramage 1864, p. 45 http://books.google.com/books?id=AoUCAAAAQAAJ&pg;=PA45)
“Gli uomini sono la città, non le mura né le navi vuote di uomini.”
Fonte?
citato in Sichelgaita: tra longobardi e normanni, Elea press, 1997, p. 165
Origine: Il Club dei Mestieri Stravaganti, p. 69
Origine: Citato in Piero Buscaroli, Una nazione in coma. Dal 1793, due secoli, Minerva Edizioni, Bologna, 2013, p. 113.
“Così come gli amici si trasformano in nemici, i nemici possono diventare amici.”
Cersei Lannister
2016, p. 501
Il Grande Inverno