1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 13
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Don't compromise your beliefs for money.242.
Don't confide secrets to your wife, don't rent if your house has a pergola, don't have cops as a godfathers.243.
Don't confront water and fire.244.
Don't despise a man under a cape nor a woman in tatters.245.
Don't fetch water in a basket.246.
Don't fight with someone who has nothing to lose.247.
Don't give away what you need for yourself.248.
Don't go to the doctor for every malady, nor to the lawyer for every disagreement, nor to the fountain for every thirst.249.
Don't harvest grass that you don't recognize.250.
Don't have anything to do with the cavalier who has fallen into poverty.251.
Don't have the appetite of Miss Julia who, when she had meat, wanted chick peas.252.
Don't join in the celebration or holiday if you feel disgruntled.253.
Don't kiss blacksmith's daughter.254.
Don't kneel in front of a saint who doesn't perspire.255.
Don't leave the small quantity to get the big quantity because you might lose the one as well as the other.256.
Don't lend out something that you're going to soon need.257.
Don't let the chicken into the hen house in January.258.
Don't let yourself get far away from your jackasses, women, and oxen.259.
Don't look for what you can't find.260.
Don't love the one who loves you, it's tyranny.