114 Maltese Proverbs / Page 9
- 81. The good die young.
 - 82. The law is not made for the rich.
- 83. The one who has had no experience of evil cannot know the worth of what is good.
- 84. The person who thinks about his own grief forgets about the grief of others.
- 85. The seller has one eye, the buyer, one hundred.
- 86. The wagtail hops and flaps its wings, but the male dove feeds and coos.
- 87. The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases.
- 88. The weather vane will not work without wind.
- 89. The world is a wheel and men are the fellowes, and the devil prowling around spins.
- 90. The world is nonsense: what looks beautiful in the morning looks ugly in the evening.
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