Italian proverbs

Hide not the truth from your confessor, your doctor, or your lawyer.

Wolves have howled at the moon for centuries, yet it is still there.

The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.

When the ship has sunk everyone knows how she might have been saved.

Corsairs against corsairs, there is nothing to win but empty barrels.

He who makes an idol of his interest makes a martyr of his integrity.

I protect myself from my enemies; may God protect me from my friends.

He who is born with a weak intellect and a goiter can never be cured.

He that buys the office of magistrate must of necessity sell justice.

He who tells his own affairs will hardly keep secret those of others.

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