68 Proverbs with Italian origins

A cat pent up becomes a lion.;
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A favour to come is better than a hundred received.;
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A runaway monk never praises his monastery.;
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A woman, a steak, and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten the better they be.;
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Anger can be an expensive luxury.;
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At a dangerous passage, yield to precedence.;
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Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still;
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Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.;
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Better a mouse in the pot than no flesh at all.;
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Better give a penny then lend twenty.;
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Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.;
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Beware of a man of one book;
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By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn;
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight;
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight.;
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.;
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For a wife and horse to your neighbour.;
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.;
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Half a brain is enough for him who says little.;
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Have an open face but conceal your thoughts.;
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He that marries a widow with four children marries four thieves.;
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He who begins many things finishes but few.;
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He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne;
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He who knows little quickly tells it;
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He who knows nothing doubts nothing;
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He who puts up with insult invites injury;
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He who wants a great deal must not ask for little.;
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He would share even his share of the sun.;
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High birth is a poor dish at table.;
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I'm buying a horse and taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to God.;
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If the patient dies, the doctor has killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him.;
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If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it;
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In prosperity no altars smoke.;
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It is the great north wind that made the Vikings;
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Land was never lost for want of an heir.;
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Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason;
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Love is an excuse for its own faults.;
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Love tells us many things that are not so;
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No pear falls into a shut mouth.;
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One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.;
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Praise a maid in the morning, and the weather at night.;
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She who is born a beauty is born betrothed.;
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Silence was never written down.;
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Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get;
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Spread the table and contention will cease;
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Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice.;
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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are;
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Tell not all you know, believe not all your hear, do not all you are able.;
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected;
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The beginning is the half of every action;
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The comforter's head never aches.;
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The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone.;
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The robes of lawyers are lined with obstinacy of suitors.;
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There is no need to bind up one's head before it is broken.;
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Those who have fine clothes in their chests can wear rags.;
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Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground;
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To a covered ill an open razor.;
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Trifles makes perfection, but perfection is no trifle.;
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Trouble rides a fast horse.;
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What does not poison fattens.;
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When ill luck falls asleep, let none wake her.;
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When the sun is highest it casts the least shadow.;
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Who gives bread to other's dogs is often barked at by his own.;
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Who offends writes on sand; who is offended, on marble.;
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Who sows thorns should not go barefoot.;
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you;
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With so many roosters crowing, the sun never comes up.;
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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.;
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