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Sin when you are drunk, pay the fine when you are sober.

Proverbs and old sayings German about sin, contentment

That usury is a sin some hold, but take for granted they've no gold.

Proverbs and old sayings German about sin

He who avoids the temptations avoids the sin.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about sin

To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.

Proverbs and old sayings Hasidic about worry, sin

The beginning of sin is sweet; its end is bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings about beginning, bitter, sin, end

It's not the sin that maddens a person but the desire to do it.

Proverbs and old sayings about sin, people

Flee from sin as from a snake; if you go near it, it will bite you.

Proverbs and old sayings about sin, contentment

Sin is not perfect until one prides oneself on it.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about perfection, sin

No sin is hidden to the soul.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about soul, sin

It is not a sin to sell dear, but it is to make ill measure.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about measure, commerce, sin

Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.

Proverbs and old sayings about crime, criminals, sin

A hidden sin is half forgiven.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sin

A sin concealed is half forgiven.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sin

He who thinks badly commits a sin but hits the mark.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sin

The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sin, man

In men every mortal sin is venial, in women every venial sin is mortal.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sin, man

Every one thinks himself without sin because he has not those of others.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sin

Poverty is no sin, but terribly inconvenient.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about poverty, sin

If not for fear, sin would be sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about fear, sin

To show one's fist to a blind man is neither a sin nor a virtue.

Proverbs and old sayings about virtue, blind, sin, man