“It is the treason that finds favour, and not the traitor who is guilty of it.”
Pt. II, Lib. II, Ch. X.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
“To show favour to a villain is to sow in the sea, and to be guilty of an injustice.”
Il far beneficio ad un tristo è seminar nel mare, è far atto d'ingiustizia.
Del Prencipe di Valacchia, p. 67.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 314.
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Il far beneficio ad un tristo è seminar nel mare, è far atto d'ingiustizia.
Source: Citato in Harbottle, p. 314
Source: Dialoghi Piacevoli, Del Prencipe di Valacchia, p. 67
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