“In an old man all his other vices grow old, but avarice alone grows younger.”
            De' Magistrati, p. 127. 
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 430.
        
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Tutti gli altri vitii nel vecchio s'invecchiano, ma la sola avaritia ingiovanisce.
                        
                            Source: Citato in Harbottle, p. 430 
Source: Dialoghi Piacevoli, De' Magistrati, p. 127
                        
                    
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