“When a nice quote comes to mind, I always attribute it to Montesquieu, or to La Rochefoucauld. They've never complained.”

—  Indro Montanelli

Quando mi viene in mente un bell'aforisma, lo metto in conto a Montesquieu, od a La Rochefoucauld. Non si sono mai lamentati.
cited in Mai dette, ma le ripetiamo sempre Ecco le frasi fantasma della storia http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/mai-dette-ripetiamo-sempre-ecco-frasi-fantasma-storia.html by Luigi Mascheroni, in il Giornale, 21 March 2009, p. 22.
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Quando mi viene in mente un bell'aforisma, lo metto in conto a Montesquieu, od a La Rochefoucauld. Non si sono mai lamentati.

Source: Citato in Luigi Mascheroni, Mai dette, ma le ripetiamo sempre. Ecco le frasi fantasma della storia http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/mai-dette-ripetiamo-sempre-ecco-frasi-fantasma-storia.html, il Giornale, 21 marzo 2009, p. 22.

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