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Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.
All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours.
All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours.
No day so clear but hath dark clouds.
No day so clear but hath dark clouds.
What is to be once resolved on should be first often well
considered.
What is to be once resolved on should be first often well
considered.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be
overturned.
Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be
overturned.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you
to eat his pears.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you
to eat his pears.
The ears that gape after secrets retain not faithfully what is
entrusted to them.
The ears that gape after secrets retain not faithfully what is
entrusted to them.
