Frases de Giovanni Della Casa

Giovanni della Casa fue un poeta y clérigo italiano.

✵ 28. junio 1503 – 14. noviembre 1556
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“These kinds of habits, in good company, are so very nauseous and disgusting, that if we indulge ourselves in them, no one can be very fond of our acquaintance. So far from it, that even those, who are inclined to wish us well, must, by these and the like disagreeable customs, be entirely alienated from us.”

Those ill-bred people, who expect their acquaintance to love and caress them, with all their foibles, are as absurd as a poor ragged cinder-wench; who should roll about upon an heap of ashes, scrabbling and throwing dust in the face of every one that passed by; and yet flatter herself that she should allure some youth to her embraces, by these dirty endearments; which would infallibly keep him at a distance.
Fuente: Galateo: Or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners, p. 15