Quello è dolce a ricordare, che fu duro a sopportare.That is pleasant to remember which was hard to endure.
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Chi non può far la sua vendetta è debole, chi non vuole è vile.He who cannot revenge himself is weak, he who will not is contemptible.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa Quaresima che par così lunga, alla tavola d’altri poco dura.Lent, which seems so long, is short at other men’s tables.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuando è poco pan in tavola, mettine assai nella scodella.When there is little bread at table put plenty on your plate.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon gridar i pesci fritti prima d’esser presi.Don’t cry fried fish before they are caught.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOgni dì non è festa.Every day is not a holiday.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi la fa, se la dimentica, ma non chi la riceve.He who does the wrong forgets it, but not he who receives it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi nasce matto, non guarisce mai.Who is born a fool is never cured.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDella sua istessa colpa amor è scusa.Love is an excuse for its own faults.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi vuol esser mal servito tenga assai famiglia.He that would be ill served should keep plenty of servants.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesParente, o non parente, mal per quel che non ha niente.Kin or no kin, woe to him who has nothing.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSa più il papa e un contadino che il papa solo.The pope and a peasant know more than the pope alone.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBen è cieco chi non vede il sole.He is very blind who cannot see the sun.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNon giudicar la nave stando in terra.Do not judge of the ship from the land.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi vuol Quaresima corta, faccia debiti da pagar a Pasqua.Who wishes for a short Lent let him contract debts to be paid at Easter.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA caval donato, non si mira il pelo.Never heed the colour of a gift horse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIn casa, Argo; di fuori, talpa.Argus at home, a mole abroad.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAmor non conosce travaglio.Love knows not labour.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesI danari sono tondi, e girano.Money is round, and rolls.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi biasima, vuol comprare.He who decries, wants to buy.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi serba, serba al gatto.Who saves, saves for the cat.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa barba non fa il filosofo.The beard does not make the philosopher.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChi vuol dell’acqua chiara, vada alla fonte.He who would have clear water should go to the fountain head.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSa dove il diavolo tien la coda.He knows where the devil has his tail.
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