ITALIAN PROVERB

Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.

When woman reigns the devil governs.

You must shift your sail with the wind.

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

Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world.

He that is always right is usually wrong.

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

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

Every one praises his own saint.

Criminals are punished, that others may be deterred.

To censure princes is perilous, and to praise them is lying.

There is never enough where nought is left.

Hell and the law courts are always open.

He who has been stung by a serpent is afraid of a lizard.

He who demands does not command.

A thousand probabilities don't make one fact.

A fool throws a stone into a well, and it requires a hundred wise men to get it out again.

What is done from necessity involves neither censure nor applause

Silence was never written down.

In prosperity no altars smoke.

He who wants a great deal must not ask for little.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

At a dangerous passage, yield to precedence.

A runaway monk never praises his monastery.

A favor to come is better than a hundred received.