Sempre ne va il meglio.The best always goes first.
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Quattrini e amicizia rompon le braccia alla giustizia.Money and friendship break the arms of justice.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon fu mai vista capra morta di fame.No one ever saw a goat dead of hunger.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA caval magro vanno le mosche.Flies flock to the lean horse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTre lo sanno, tutti lo sanno.Three know it, all know it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesE ricco chi non ha debiti.He is rich who owes nothing.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCarica volontaria non carica.A voluntary burthen is no burthen.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi lingua ha, a Roma va.He who has a tongue, may go to Rome.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuel che è fatto non si può disfare.What’s done can’t be undone.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOgnuno sa dove la scarpa lo stringe.Every one knows where his shoe pinches him.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn diavol scaccia l’altro.One devil drives out another.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSciocco è chi pensa che un altro non pensi.He is a fool who thinks that another does not think.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA chi ti può torre ciò che hai, dagli ciò che ti chiede.To him who can take what thou hast, give what he asks.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMuraglia bianca, carta di matto.A white wall is the fool’s paper.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDell’albero, non si giudica dalla scorza.The tree is not to be judged of by its bark.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon tutte le pecore sono per il lupo.All the sheep are not for the wolf.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDove entra il vino, esce la vergogna.When wine enters modesty departs.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCi è chi vede male, e vorrebbe veder peggio.There are some who see ill, and would like to see worse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOcchio che non vede, cuor che non duole.What the eye sees not the heart rues not.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon mi punse mai scorpione che io non mi medicassi col suo olio.A scorpion never stung me but I cured myself with its grease.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDà tempo al tempo.Give time time.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOgni monte ha la sua valle.Every hill has its valley.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPer un monaco non si lascia di far l’abbate.The election of the abbot is not stopped for want of a monk.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesE mala cosa esser cattivo, ma è peggiore esser conosciuto.It is a bad thing to be a knave, but worse to be known for one.
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