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Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Diseases are the interest of pleasures.

Proverbs and old sayings English about interest

Diseases come on horseback, but steal away on foot.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Diseases are the visits of God.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about god

Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Old age is a hospital that takes in all diseases.

Proverbs and old sayings British about olderness, age, old

Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about medicine

Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Three diseases without shame: love, itch, and thirst.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about shame, love

The diseases of the mind are either caused or cured by the power of music.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about music, power, mind

There are no incurable diseases but only incurable people.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about people

Night of the Saint Andrew

On the 30th of November, Romaian people is celebrating Saint Andrew, the spiritual patriarch of Romania.

The night before Saint Andrew's Eve is known as the night of the ghosts( strigoi), strigoi means in Romanian...

Traditions and superstitions Romanian

Christmas traditions and superstitions

In many romanian villages, in Christmas Eve, exists the tradition to smear the cattles and stables with garlic to keep away the bad spiritis. The people are smeared as well with garlic on the forehead,...

Traditions and superstitions Romanian

It is not right to ask a man with elephantiasis of the scrotum to take on small pox as well, when thousands of other people have not had even their share of small diseases.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rightness, people, man