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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
Check disease in its approach.
Check disease in its approach.
Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.
Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.
Craft against craft makes no living.
Craft against craft makes no living.
Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.
Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.
Every ill man hath his ill day.
Every ill man hath his ill day.
Idleness ruins the constitution.
Idleness ruins the constitution.
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.
