“We cannot learn our lessons at our companion’s expense”

—  Alessandro Piccolomini

Alle spese del compagno non si può imparare.
Act V., Scene I. — (Il Quercivola).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 247.
L’Alessandro (1544)

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Italian writer and philosopher 1508–1579

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