John Florio
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"John Florio" (1553–1625), known in Italian as "Giovanni Florio" , was a linguist and lexicographer, a royal language tutor at the Court of James I of England/James I, and a possible friend and influence on William Shakespeare. He was also the first translator of Michel de Montaigne/Montaigne into English. He was born in London, and in 1580 he married Aline, the sister of poet Samuel Daniel. The couple had three children, Joane Florio, baptised in Oxford in 1585; Edward, in 1588 and Elizabeth, in 1589. He died in Fulham, London in 1625 in apparent poverty.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.

Praise the sea; on shore remain.

Patience is the best medicine.