1234 Sicilian Proverbs / Page 56
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Who lives foolishly as a youth, wails in old age.1102.
Who looks for a quarrel, finds a quarrel.1103.
Who loses his honor loses a lot, who loses his faith, loses everything.1104.
Who loses honor won't ever find it.1105.
Who loves God with all his heart, lives happy and dies happy.1106.
Who loves with his heart sees from a distance.1107.
Who makes baskets, makes some ugly and some beautiful.1108.
Who makes excuses without being accused, shows his guilt.1109.
Who makes himself a sheep, will be eaten by the wolf.1110.
Who makes the hundred and not the one, loses the hundred because of that one.1111.
Who openly admires, will not buy.1112.
Who pays in advance eats stinking fish.1113.
Who poorly supports himself, soon falls.1114.
Who pounds the water in the mortar, will get wet with the drops and will end up tired.1115.
Who practices with the lame will be able to limp within a year.1116.
Who preaches to the deaf, wastes the sermon.1117.
Who resolves problems, doesn't die.1118.
Who rids himself of his own freedom, always finds himself with worry and pain.1119.
Who robs commits a sin, who is robbed commits a hundred.1120.
Who runs more, lacks walking.