Romanian proverbs

We carry our neighbours' failings in sight; we throw our own crimes over our shoulders.

Children when they are little make parents fools, when they are great they make them mad.

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity not one amongst twenty.

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

Though thou hast never so many counsellors, yet do not forsake the counsel of thy own soul.

The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.

If the adder could hear, and the blindworm could see, neither man nor beast would ever go free.

Who has neither fools nor beggars nor whores among his kindred, was born of a stroke of thunder.

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