“It is better to wear rags in honesty than brocade in dishonour.”
È meglio vestir cencio con leanza, che broccato con disonoranza.
La Sorellina di Pilone (1712), Act II, Sc. V. — (Credenza.)
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 294.
Original
È meglio vestir cencio con leanza, che broccato con disonoranza.
atto II, scena V
La sorellina di don Pilone
Source: Citato in Harbottle, p. 294.
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