Journal
SIT AROUND THE WORDS
“In every corner of the world you can find culture, wisdom and millenary tradition .. he has humbly sought them endlessly in the most diverse proverbs and in the phrases of distant cultures .. but substantially very similar and decidedly” close “because in the world “Diversity” is only apparent”
ATHENS
37°58′N 23°43′E
“The end of labour is to gain leisure”
Aristotle
MILANO
45° 28′ 41″ N 9° 07′ 26″ W
“Voeuja de lauraa, saltum adòss”
“Voglia di lavorare, saltami addosso” – Proverbio milanese
Spanish Proverb
HAMBURG
53°33′00″ N 10°00′00″ E
“Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.”
J.W. Goethe
MADRID
40° 30′ 00″ N 3° 40′ 24″ W
“Full belly, happy heart!”
Spanish Proverb
JOHANNESBURG
26° 12′ 14.77″ S 28° 2′ 50.298″ E
“A seated old man sees farther than a standing young man”
African Proverb
FLORENCE
43° 46′ 10.417″ N 11° 15′ 20.929″ E
“The end justifies the means”
Attributed to Niccolò Macchiavelli 1500 AD inspired by Ovid