Dissi, a quelle parole, che gli uomini che volevan fare a lor modo, bisognava che si facessino un mondo a lor modo, perché in questo non si usava cosí." - Meaning and context.">
I said, in response to his words, that men who wanted to do things in their own way had better make a world in their own way, because in this world things are not done like this.
• Autobiography, vol. 1, ch. 79 (1558-66); translation from Benvenuto Cellini (trans. Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella) My Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) p. 132.
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Dissi, a quelle parole, che gli uomini che volevan fare a lor modo, bisognava che si facessino un mondo a lor modo, perché in questo non si usava cosí.

— Benvenuto Cellini

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Dissi, a quelle parole, che gli uomini che volevan fare a lor modo, bisognava che si facessino un mondo a lor modo, perché in questo non si usava cosí." in the context of "I said, in response to his words, that men who wanted to do things in their own way had better make a world in their own way, because in this world things are not done like this.
• Autobiography, vol. 1, ch. 79 (1558-66); translation from Benvenuto Cellini (trans. Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella) My Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) p. 132." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Benvenuto Cellini

About Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini (November 3 1500 – February 13 1571) was a Florentine writer, goldsmith and sculptor. He is now best known as the author of a revealing autobiography.