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Italy | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Proverb or Folk Saying on Fortune and Fate -- Italy (National)
o in Italian: Le disgrazie non vanno mai sole.
o in English: Troubles never come alone.
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Italy | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Proverb or Folk Saying on Fortune and Fate -- Italy (National)
o in Italian: Qunado finisce la partita, i pedoni, le torri, i cavalli, i vescovi, i due re e le due regine tutti vanno nello stresso scatolo.
o in English: When the chess game is over, the pawns, rooks, knights, bishops, kings and queens all go back into the same container.
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Italy | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Proverb or Folk Saying on Fortune and Fate -- Italy (National)
o in Italian: La gatta frettolosa feci gattini ciechi.
o in English: (Literally) The hurried she-cat has made blind kittens. (Equivalent) Haste makes waste.
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Italy | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Proverb or Folk Saying on Fortune and Fate -- Italy (National)
o in Italian: Fatta la legge, trovata la malizia.
o in English: Every law has a loophole.
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Italy | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Proverb or Folk Saying on Fortune and Fate -- Italy (National)
o in Italian: Paesi che vai, usanze che trovi.
o in English: (Literally) The countries you visit, the customs you find. (Equivalent) When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
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Italy | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Proverb or Folk Saying on Fortune and Fate -- Italy (National)
o in Italian: Il mondo e dalla parte di chi agisce.
o in English: The world belongs to those who act.
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Italy | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Proverb or Folk Saying on Fortune and Fate -- Italy (National)
o in Italian: Dopo un meglia, viene un peggio.
o in English: After some good times, expect some really bad ones.
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Italy | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Proverb or Folk Saying on Fortune and Fate -- Italy (National)
o in Italian: Vuoi tu esser re? Domina te stesso.
o in English: Do you want to be king? Ask yourself!
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Italy | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Proverb or Folk Saying on Fortune and Fate -- Italy (National)
o in Italian: I giudici vanno avanti col verdetto, gli scrittori col bianchetto, le donne col rosetto.
o in English: The judge brings along his verdict, the writer, his notepad, the woman her lipstick.
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Italy | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Proverb or Folk Saying on Fortune and Fate -- Italy (National)
o in Italian: Campa cavallo, che l'erba cresce.
o in English: (Literally) Be alive horse, because grass grows. (Meaning) While the horse starves, the grass grows.
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