#john florio

[nobeerreviews]

Night is the mother of thoughts.

-- John Florio

(Bern, Switzerland)

[edlboetie]

[text ID: excerpt from Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II, by Robert F. Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon.

"Yet the main thread of his life is not his public activity but his famous and brilliant book, Les Essais (1580-1588), translated by John Florio--a fellow homosexual--for the court of Prince Henry of Wales (1603)," the rest of the text is cut off.]

wait a minute now.

[quotesofcriminalminds]

A good husband makes a good wife.

John Florio

[cmbookendquotes]

"A good husband makes a good wife." John Florio

David Rossi - 12x12 “A Good Husband”

[writing-challenges-and-prompts]

A good husband makes a good wife.

John Florio

[lovegodsmashtyrants]

“This [Pyrrhonism] representeth man bare and naked, acknowledging his natural weakness, apt to receive from above some strange power, disfurnished of all human knowledge, and so much the more fit to harbour divine understanding, disannulling his judgement that so he may give more place unto faith. Neither misbelieving nor establishing any doctrine or opinion repugnant unto common laws and observances, humble, obedient, disciplinable, and studious; a sworn enemy to heresy, and by consequence exempting himself from all vain and irreligious opinions invented and brought up by false sects. It is a white sheet prepared to take from the finger of God, what form so ever it shall please him to imprint therein. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴.”

From An Apology of 𝘙𝘢𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘥 by Montaigne, as translated by John Florio

[lovegodsmashtyrants]

“I have ever thought this manner of speech in a Christian is full of indiscretion and irreverence: ‘God cannot die, God cannot gainsay himself, God cannot do this or that.’ I cannot allow a man should so bound God’s heavenly power under the laws of our word.”

From An Apology of 𝘙𝘢𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘥 by Montaigne, as translated by John Florio

[lovegodsmashtyrants]

"What shall we speak of them, who naturally change themselves into wolves, into colts, and then into men again?"

From An Apology of 𝘙𝘢𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘥 by Montaigne, as translated by John Florio