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A few things gained by fraud destroy a fortune otherwise honestly won.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about destruction, wealth, things

No gain is as certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about use

No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about use

Without pains no gains.

Proverbs and old sayings Lithuanian

To win a dispute is to gain a chicken and lose a cow.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about dispute

A morsel eaten gains no friend.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Money is not gained by losing time.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about money, time

By going gains the mill, and not by standing still.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Sparing is the first gaining.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Lightly gained, quickly lost.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Learn weeping, and you shall gain laughing.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

He that loses is merchant as well as he that gains.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Old age is not a joy, but death is not a gain.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about olderness, joy, age, death, old

Ill gotten gains don't last.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Who walks gains, who sits withers.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Wrongful gains are quickly consumed.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

There is rarely gain without deception.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about deception

By cultivating bottom land, you gain sustenance and goods.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Everyone thinks of his own gain, and plays in this way to deceive his companion.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

If you show a rich man kindness, you gain nothing, but when you wrong him he avenges himself instantly.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad, wealth, nothing, man