Vivi, e lascia vivere.Live and let live.
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Indarno si tende la rete in vista degli uccelli.It is in vain to lay a net in sight of the birds.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVal più un’oncia di discrezione che una libra di sapere.An ounce of discretion is better than a pound of knowledge.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDon differito, e troppo aspettato, non è donato, ma caro venduto.A gift delayed, and long expected, is not given, but sold dear.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuando la gatta non v’è, i sorci ballano.When the cat’s away the mice dance.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon tuona mai che non piova.It never thunders but it rains.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPovero come un topo di chiesa.As poor as a church mouse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi tace, acconsente.Silence gives consent.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSa meglio i fatti suoi un matto, che un savio quei degli altri.A fool knows his own business better than a wise man knows that of others.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi nasce bella, nasce maritata.She who is born a beauty is born betrothed.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa moglie e il ronzino piglia dal vicino.For a wife and a horse go to your neighbour.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’amico non è conosciuto finchè non è perduto.A friend is not known till he is lost.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAnni e peccati sempre sono più che non si dice.Years and sins are always more than owned.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDio mi guardi da chi ha una faccenda sola.God save me from him who has but one occupation.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn peccato confessato è mezzo perdonato.A sin confessed is half forgiven.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAspetta tempo e loco à far la tua vendetta, che la non si fa mai ben in fretta.Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl leone ebbe bisogno del topo.The lion had need of the mouse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMille verisimili non fanno un vero.A thousand probabilities do not make one truth.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuel che fa il pazzo all’ultimo, lo fa il savio alla prima.A wise man does at first what a fool must do at last.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi contra il cielo getta pietra, in capo gli ritorna.Who throws a stone at the sky, it falls back on his head.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl mangiare insegna a bere.Eating teaches drinking.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBuon appetito non vuol salsa.A good appetite does not want sauce.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi butta via oro con lo mani lo cerca co’ piedi.He who throws away money with his hands will seek it with his feet.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi burla, vien burlato.The biter is sometimes bit.
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