“The proverb says, He conquers who endures.”

— Giovanni Maria Cecchi

Il Diamante, Act I., Scene II. — (Scacchia).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 265.

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Italian poet, playwright, writer and notary 1518–1587

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