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Castruccio used to say that the way to hell was an easy one,

seeing that it was in a downward direction and you travelled

blindfolded. Being asked a favour by one who used many

superfluous words, he said to him: "When you have another request

to make, send someone else to make it." Having been wearied by a

similar man with a long oration who wound up by saying: "Perhaps

I have fatigued you by speaking so long," Castruccio said: "You

have not, because I have not listened to a word you said." He

used to say of one who had been a beautiful child and who

afterwards became a fine man, that he was dangerous, because he

first took the husbands from the wives and now he took the wives

from their husbands.