Non è cosa che voglia tutta la diligenza dell’ uomo e che meno patisca gli errori, etiandio piccoli, quanto fa la guerra.

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Translation: There is nothing which so calls for men’s closest attention, and so seldom pardons a mistake, however small, as war. | Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 373.

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