O adagio do mestre Povo
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As pessoas valem o que vale a affeição da gente, e é dahi que mestre Povo tirou aquelle adagio que quem o feio ama bonito lhe parece.
People are worth what one's affection for them is worth, and it is from that that Master People drew the old adage: to whoever loves, the ugly one seems fair.
People are worth what our affection makes them, whence the old adage: to one who loves, the ugly seems fair.
A Machadian aphorism on love's optics — affection, not truth, sets the value of what we see, the very theme that makes Bento's testimony unreliable.
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