1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 14
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Don't maintain a friendship with cops because you'll lose your wine and your cigars.262.
Don't make friends with monks and soldiers.263.
Don't make promises to the rich nor withhold from the poor.264.
Don't pass judgement on a work of art if you don't know how to create it.265.
Don't pay a single gold coin for the sorrell, but when he's good, be ready to spend a fortune.266.
Don't plow during September and don't seed during October.267.
Don't praise the daylight before it is evening.268.
Don't preach, neither at home nor abroad.269.
Don't prod the donkey while you're getting on.270.
Don't push yourself forward if you don't have the heart.271.
Don't put the bait near the fire.272.
Don't put the cart before the horse.273.
Don't put yourself on a par with your betters.274.
Don't retest the tested because the more you test it, the worse it will appear.275.
Don't say, don't go, to running dogs.276.
Don't sleep on the ground during those months that are spelled with an r.277.
Don't spare expense on the wheat and the flax.278.
Don't take advice from your enemy.279.
Don't tell your friend everything that you know; remember that one day you may have him for an enemy.280.
Don't trust a woman who laughs.