Better be a bird of the wood than a bird in the cage.
More Italian Proverbs:
Of what does not concern you say nothing, good or bad.Italian
A lawsuit is a fruit-tree planted in a lawyer's garden.
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Though the fox runs, the pullets have wings.
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He measures others with his own yard.
Italian
No sooner is the law made than its evasion is discovered.
Italian
When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.
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