Amor dà per mercede gelosia e rotta fede.Love’s merchandise is jealousy and broken faith.
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Amor dà per mercede gelosia e rotta fede.Love’s merchandise is jealousy and broken faith.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAl bugiardo non si crede la verità.The liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOgni vite vuole il suo palo.Every vine must have its stake.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMai si serra una porta, che non si apra un’altra.One door never shuts but another opens.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi abbisogna, non abbia vergogna.He that wants should not be bashful.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPresto e bene non si conviene.Quick and well don’t agree.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFatta la legge, trovata la malizia.No sooner is the law made than its evasion is discovered.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesI gran dolori sono muti.Great griefs are mute.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCorvi con corvi non si cavan gli occhi.Ravens do not peck out ravens’ eyes.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPiù son i minacciati che gli uccisi.There are more threatened than slain.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAssai presto si fa quel che si fa bene.That is done soon enough which is well done.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa vita de’ medici, l’anima de’ preti, e la roba de’ legisti sono in gran pericolo.The lives of doctors, the souls of priests, and the property of lawyers, are in great danger.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl più duro passo è quello della soglia.The hardest step is that over the threshold.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDalla neve o cotta o pesta non caverai altro che acqua.From snow whether cooked or pounded you will get nothing but water.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi ben ama, ben gastiga.Who loves well chastises well.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon è onore all’aquila il vincer la colomba.It is no honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi è in inferno non sà ciò che sia cielo.He who is in hell knows not what heaven is.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCattivo è quel sacco che non si può rappezzare.Bad is the sack that will not bear patching.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon vi è abbastanza se niente avanza.There is never enough where nought is left.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAmor vuol fede, e fede vuol fermezza.Love demands faith, and faith firmness.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMai si fa cosa ben in fretta, che il fuggir la peste e i rumori, e pigliar pulci.Nothing is ever well done in a hurry, except flying from the plague or from quarrels, and catching fleas.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon fu mai sacco sì pieno che non v’entrasse ancor un grano.A sack was never so full but it could hold another grain.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA torto si lamenta del mare, chi due volte ci vuol tornare.He ought not to complain of the sea who returns to it a second time.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi vuol il lavoro mal fatto, paghi innanzi tratto.If you would have your work ill done, pay beforehand.
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