Tutto sapere è niente sapere.To know everything is to know nothing.
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La coscienza vale per mille testimonj.Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi è causa del suo male, pianga se stesso.He who is the cause of his own misfortune may bewail it himself.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDio manda il freddo secondo i panni.God sends cold according to the clothes.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi non vuol affaticarsi in questo mondo, non ci nasca.He that will not strive in this world should not have come into it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSavio è colui che impara a spese altrui.He is wise who learns at another’s cost.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOgni pazzo è savio quando tace.Every fool is wise when he holds his tongue.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe cose non sono come sono, ma come si vedono.Things are not as they are, but as they are regarded.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPiaga antiveduta assai men duole.A wound foreseen pains the less.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA’sottili cascano le brache.Cunning men’s cloaks sometimes fall.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTra due poltroni, il vantaggio è di chi prima conosce l’altro.Between two cowards, he has the advantage who first detects the other.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAmico d’ognuno, amico di nessuno.Everybody’s friend, nobody’s friend.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDi uovo bianco spesso pulcin nero.Out of a white egg often comes a black chick.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSi trovano molti asini che non portano mai sacco.There are more asses than carry sacks.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi non vuol servir ad un sol signore, a molti ha da servire.He who will not serve one master must needs serve many.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesE meglio esser solo che mal accompagnato.Better alone than in bad company.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA can che lecchi cenere, non gli fidar farina.The dog that licks ashes is not to be trusted with flour.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCieco è l’occhio, se l’animo è distratto.The eye is blind if the mind is absent.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi sa meglio nuotare, è il primo a sommergersi.The best swimmer is the first to drown himself.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA buon cavaliere non manca lancia.A good cavalier never lacks a lance.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCorpo satollo non crede al digiuno.The full belly does not believe in hunger.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon v’è sì tristo cane che non meni la coda.There is no dog, be he ever so wicked, but wags his tail.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSorte, e dormi.Have luck, and sleep.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon vien dì che non venga sera.No day but has its evening.
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