When swindlers meet a genuinely honest man, they're so astonished they regard him as a greater swindler than themselves.
Proverbs and old sayings about criminals, man
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Easily grasped are the crimes of a hog.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about criminals
These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about criminals, hope
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about criminals, bad luck, bad
There is no worse robber than a bad book.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about criminals, bad luck, bad
Criminals are punished, that others may be amended.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about criminals
The bandits in the mountain are easily subjected, but it is difficult to subject the bandits in my heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about criminals, heart
The swindler readily cheats the covetous man.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about criminals, man
If you want to know villain, give him a stick.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about criminals
Better be killed by robbers than by the kick of an ass.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about criminals
We carry our neighbours' failings in sight; we throw our own crimes over our shoulders.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about criminals
Success consecrates the foulest crimes.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about criminals
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about criminals, mind
At an ambuscade of villains a man does better with his feet than his hands.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about criminals, man
Rebellious thoughts are like an abandoned house overtaken by robbers.
Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about criminals, home, house
All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
Proverbs and old sayings about criminals
