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Boccaccio

Ogni giusto re primo servatore dee essere delle leggi fatte da lui.

A just king must be the first to observe those laws that he has himself prescribed.

Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron (c. 1350), “Seventh Day,” Tenth Story (tr. G. H. McWilliam).

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