Chi scappa d’un punto ne schifa cento.

 

Chi scappa d’un punto ne schifa cento.
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Act IV, scene IV. — (Fannio.)
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Translation: Who flies from one danger escapes a hundred.
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Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 271.

 

Bernardo Dovizi

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