Thursday, April 16, 2020

 

Three Kinds of Brains

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), The Prince XXII (tr. Harvey C. Mansfield):
[T]here are three kinds of brains: one that understands by itself, another that discerns what others understand, the third that understands neither by itself nor through others; the first is most excellent, the second excellent, and the third useless...

[S]ono di tre generazione cervelli, l'uno intende da sé, l'altro discerne quello che altri intende, el terzo non intende né sé né altri, quel primo è eccellentissimo, el secondo eccellente, el terzo inutile...



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