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To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about writing, pleasure, name, wealth, heart, old, olderness, good, good luck

A hawk kills because it is his nature; a man because it is his pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings about pleasure, nature, man

Diseases are the interest of pleasures.

Proverbs and old sayings English about interest

There are two great pleasures in gambling: winning and losing.

Proverbs and old sayings French

There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Quarrels enhance the pleasures of love.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about love

The pleasures of love are enhanced by injuries.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about love

The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting more.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about tears

The remembrance of past pleasures adds to present sorrows.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about present, past

Moral people sleep well at night, but the immoral seem to get pleasure from the waking hours much more.

Proverbs and old sayings about moral, pleasure, sleep, night, people

Stolen pleasures are sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

The vine brings forth three grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, the third of sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about drunkenness, pleasure, sadness

It's better to have few pleasures than many troubles.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

In war, hunting, and love you suffer a thousand pains for one pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about suffering, pleasure, war, love

Choose her for her beauty and even choose her without a dowry because from her beauty you'll get pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about beauty, pleasure

If you want to know secrets, seek for them in trouble or in pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about pleasure

We have far greater compassion for another's misfortune than our pleasure in another's good fortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about pleasure, wealth, good, good luck

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.

Proverbs and old sayings about generosity, life, day
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