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Italian
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U lupu di mala cuscenza comu opera accussì penza.
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The wolf dishonest thinks of others what he might do him.
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A cosa 'ncimata è menza cusuta.
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A basted suit is half sewing.
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A lu viddanu nun ci toccanu nguanti, ma a zappa n' coddu e 'u sceccu davanti.
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To the peasant they don't touch gloves but the hoe on the shoulder and the donkey before.
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Cu di nu sceccu fa 'n cavaddu, u primo cauciu s'u pigghia iddu.
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Who of a donkey ago a horse, he takes the first kick.
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Munti cù munti nun s`incontrunu mai.
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The mountains never meet him with other mountains
(Instead the people meet sooner or later him).
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'A quattara ca va all'acqua, o si rumpi, o si ciacca.
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The pitcher that goes to the water, or he breaks, or he cracks.
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A pignata vardata nun vugghi mai.
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The looked pot never boils
(When for a thing is waited it never arrives).
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Prima di palari mastica i paroli.
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Before speaking it chews the words
(You reflect well on the words that you are saying).
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Ci rissi u vermi a' nuci: dammi tempu ca ti perciu.
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It told the worm the walnut: give me time that I puncture you.
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Di `na rosa nasci `na spina. Di `na spina nasci `na rosa.
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From a rose a thorn is born, from a thorn a rose is born.
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Tri sunnu li putenti: u papa, u re e cu nunn'avi nenti.
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Three are the powerful persons: the pope, the king and who doesn't have anything.
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Cu nesci arrinesci.
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Who estranges from his/her environment it comes to be in a best condition.
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Fai beni e scordatilu, fai mali e pensaci.
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Do good and forget it, do evil and think.
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Petra ca nun fa lippu, u ciumi si la tira.
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The stone that musk doesn't do is dragged away by the river.
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A corda ruppa ruppa, cci va 'nto menzu cu non ci curpa.
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The rope knots, nodes who did not bear the blame .
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A lingua nun avi ossu, ma rumpi l'ossa.
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The language doesn't have bone but it breaks the bones.
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Chiamai l'orvu ppi darimi aiutu, rapiu l'occhi e mi fici scantari.
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The language doesn't have bone but it breaks the bones.
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La fimmina è comu li muluna: mmenzu a centu ci nn'è bona una.
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The woman is as the melons: in the middle of one hundred it is us of it good one.
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Quannu ‘u piru è fattu casca sulu.
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When the pear is mature it falls alone.
(After sometime the situations they are clarified alone).
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U rispettu è misuratu, cu lu porta l’havi purtato.
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The respect is measured, who the door receives him.
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Fimmini: capiddi longhi e ciriveddu curtu.
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Women: long hair and short brain.
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Cu mancia fa muddichi.
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Who eats ago crumbs.
(Who inevitably does something it commits some error).
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U bonu no vali cchiù di nu tintu sì.
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The rejection dictate gracefully more than the it is worth yes said rudely.
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Soccu ora si schifia veni lu tempu ca si ddisia.
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The rejection dictate dark gracefully than the it is worth yes said rudely.
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Aceddu ca canta 'nta argia, o canta p'amuri o canta ppi rabbia.
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The bird that sings in the cage, or it sings for love or for anger.
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