Il buono è buono, ma il miglior vince.Good is good, but better beats it.
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Dimmi con chi vai, e ti dirò chi sei.Tell me the company you keep, and I’ll tell you what you are.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi offende, non dimentichi.Let the injurer not forget.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDio ti salvi da un cattivo vicino, e da un principiante di violino.God save you from a bad neighbour, and from a beginner on the fiddle.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAccordatevi, dice Arlotto, ed io farò piovere.Agree between yourselves (as to the time), quoth Arlotto, and I will make it rain.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn pazzo getta una pietra nel pozzo, e vi voglion cento savii a cavarnela.A fool throws a stone into a well, and it requires a hundred wise men to get it out again.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn buon boccone, e cento guai.One good morsel and a hundred vexations.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOgnun tira l’acqua al suo molino.Every one draws the water to his own mill.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA buona derrata pensaci su.At a good bargain pause and ponder.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon si crede al santo se non fa miracoli.The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCavallo che corre non ha bisogna di sproni.Spur not a willing horse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDel senno di poi è piena ogni fossa.Every ditch is full of after-wit.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl buon pagatore dell’altrui borsa è signore.He who pays well is master of another’s purse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBisogna unger le ruote, chi vuol che il carro corra.You must grease the wheels if you would have the car run.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi mal semina, mal raccoglie.Who sows ill reaps ill.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesE meglio un papa vivo che dieci morti.One living pope is better than ten dead.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSotto la bianca cenere sta la brace ardente.Under white ashes there is glowing coal.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOgni disuguaglianza amore agguaglia.Love levels all inequalities.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPiccola pioggia fa cessar gran vento.Small rain lays a great wind.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOgni rosa ha la sua spina.Every rose has its thorn.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi con l’occhio vede, di cuor crede.Seeing is believing.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFiglie e vetri son sempre in pericolo.Lasses and glasses are always in danger.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi frequenta la cucina, sente di fumo.Who frequents the kitchen smells of smoke.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCasa fatta, possession disfatta.The house completed, possession defeated.
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