Italian proverbs

Speak well of your friend; of your enemy neither well nor ill.

Great cry and little wool, as the man said who shaved the sow.

Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.

Tell everybody your business and the devil will do it for you.

Trust not the praise of a friend nor the contempt of an enemy.

A thing is never much talked of but there is some truth in it.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

It takes four living men to carry one dead man out of a house.

Who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.

It is better to hear the nightingale sing than the mouse gnaw.

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