“Learn art and virtue, and, when times demand,
(So says the saw), you have them to your hand.”

— Giovanni Maria Cecchi

(Dice il proverbio) impara arte e virtù,
E se il bisogno vien cavala su.
Le Rappresentazioni di Tobia, Act 7., Scene IV.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 323.

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(Dice il proverbio) impara arte e virtù, E se il bisogno vien cavala su.

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Variant: (Dice il proverbio) impara arte e virtù,
E se il bisogno vien cavala su.

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Italian poet, playwright, writer and notary 1518–1587

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