“He who does not look before him stays behind.”

— Stefano Guazzo

Chi non guarda dinanzi rimane di dietro.
Della Prudenza et Dottrina del Re, p. 14.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 268.

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