(Che) il leon non combatte con la mosca.
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V., 41.
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Translation: For never doth the lion fight with flies.
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Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 315.Francesco Bracciolini
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Léon was tired of loving without having anything to show for it, and he was beginning to feel the depression that comes from leading a monotonous life without any guiding interest or buoyant hope.
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Do not be afraid, Leon, — I feel much better; but in case anything should happen to me I wanted to leave you something to remember me by. Perhaps I ought not to say it so soon after my husband's death; but as I might die, I wanted to tell you now that I loved you very, very much.
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