“Who flies from one danger escapes a hundred.”

—  Bernardo Dovizi

Chi scappa d’un punto ne schifa cento.
Act IV, scene IV. — (Fannio).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 271.
La Calandria (c. 1507)

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