“When the prayer is granted, they cheat the saint.”

—  Stefano Guazzo

Fatto il voto, gabbano il Santo.
Del Conoscimento di se stesso, p. 457.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 300.

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Fatto il voto, gabbano il Santo.

Source: Citato in Harbottle, p. 300
Source: Dialoghi Piacevoli, Del Conoscimento di se stesso, p. 457

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