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The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to
their house.
The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to
their house.
Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit
us when our wealth is gone.
Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit
us when our wealth is gone.
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.
Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
It is good to be taught even by an enemy.
It is good to be taught even by an enemy.
He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.
He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
