1 Michelangelo, The Letters of Michelangelo, trans. by E.H. Ramsden, 2 vols. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1963), Letter no. 160, vol. I, p. 151. An alternative translation of (presumably) the same sentence is: “I don’t know which is better, evil which helps or good that harms.” See Robert J. Clements, The Poetry of Michelangelo (New York: New York University Press, 1965), p. 51.
2 Mikhail Artsybashev, Sanin: a novel, translated by Michael R. Katz, Introduction by Otto Boele, Afterword by Nicholas Luker (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2001), pp. 262, 266.
3 In Tamasheq in the original Arabic edition.
4 In Tamasheq in the original Arabic edition.
5 Al-insan lisan