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Go gently and you'll go safely and far.

Italian proverb

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In Italian: 'Chi va piano, va sano e va lontano', 'whoever goes slowly goes safely and goes far'. It echoes the old Latin motto festina lente, 'make haste slowly'; the Roman historian Suetonius says the emperor Augustus often repeated it, in Greek. The Venetian printer Aldus Manutius later used it with his dolphin-and-anchor emblem. Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the hare makes the same point.

Türkçe oku
Yavaş giden sağ salim gider, uzağa varır.
İtalyan atasözü

İtalyancası: “Chi va piano, va sano e va lontano”, yani “yavaş giden sağ salim gider, uzağa varır”. Söz, eski Latince “festina lente” (yavaş acele et) özdeyişini hatırlatır; Romalı tarihçi Suetonius, İmparator Augustus'un bu sözü sık sık Yunanca tekrarladığını yazar. Venedikli matbaacı Aldus Manutius da onu yunuslu ve çapalı amblemiyle birlikte kullandı. Ezop'un kaplumbağa ile tavşan masalı da aynı şeyi anlatır. Türkçede benzer bir sağduyuyu “Acele işe şeytan karışır” sözü taşır.

Sources and further reading

Background reading: The Tortoise and the Hare
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