“The brigand is as a snake: if you don't annoy him, he doesn't bite you.”

— Carmine Crocco

Il brigante è come la serpe, se non la stuzzichi non ti morde.
As quoted in Voci dall'ergastolo, E. Loescher, 1903, by Romolo Ribolla

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