Qual meraviglia . . . richiesto tal uno delle cose necessarie alla guerra, egli rispondesse, tre esser quelle : Danaro, danaro, danaro!

Translation: What wonder that a certain person, being asked what were the things necessary for war, should reply that there were three, to wit, money, money and money. | Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 309.