Libre de mil proverbis
- Language:
- Catalan
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Some scanning errors (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~9,260 words · 44 passages
Cite this work
- APARamon Llull. (n.d.). Libre de mil proverbis. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/ramon-llull/libre-de-mil-proverbis
- MLARamon Llull. Libre de mil proverbis. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/ramon-llull/libre-de-mil-proverbis.
- ChicagoRamon Llull. Libre de mil proverbis. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/ramon-llull/libre-de-mil-proverbis.
Reference to the edition that SigPhi reproduces: SigPhi is its digital reproduction, not its publisher. The edition's year is not in the metadata (hence "n.d."), and the translator appears only when recorded.
What it is about
The Book of a Thousand Proverbs (1302): moral wisdom in a thousand short sentences.
Context and history
Llull also wrote for people who would never read a treatise. The proverb is the form that is remembered without effort, and here he uses it to get his philosophy to readers with no training in it. Text in MEDIEVAL CATALAN: Llull's original.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
1NO ames ton fiyl mes que ta anima, que ab ton fiyl no ha parentesch, 2Lo parentesch que Deus ha ab tu, en quant es home, ama pus que altre. 3No creegues parents qui amen pus tos bens que ta persona. 4Ama pus bon cosi, que mal fiyl. 5Parentesch per que hom pert Deu no es amable. 6Segons que ls graus de parentesch son amables, son honrables. 7Per parentesch honra ton parent, qualque sia. 8Ama mes ton parent per sa bontat que per son antich linyatge. 9Si ab virtuts pots ennoblir noueyletat de ton linyatge, ab peccats pots enuilanir la antiquitat de ton linyatge. 10Parentesch excita, en necessitat, audacia, caritat, e pietat. 11Con ausiras mal dir de ton parent, hages ne vergonya. 12Loha mes ton parent per sa bontat que per sa riquesa. 13La bontat natural de ton cors e la bontat natural de ton parent son parentes. 14Per la bontat que tu has per custuma no escuses ton maluat parent. 15Erguylos parent dona a sos parents trebayl. 16Fuig a parent qui, en quant est son parent, ha de tu vergonya. 17Contrarietat de parents es trop mala e forts. 18Mes te confia en ton parent per bona custuma que per parentesch. 19Lo honrament de ton parent no t escusa de ta mala custuma. 20Les tues males custumes desonren tots tos parents.…
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