“The mouth of hell is full of good resolutions.”

— Stefano Guazzo

La bocca dell'Inferno e piena di buone volontà.
Del Conoscimento di se stesso, p. 492.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 339.

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La bocca dell'Inferno e piena di buone volontà.

Source: Citato in Harbottle, p. 339
Source: Dialoghi Piacevoli, Del Conoscimento di se stesso, p. 492

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