[120] Palabra de boca, piedra de honda.—Palabra y piedra suelta no tiene vuelta. [121] El mal que de tu boca sale, en tu seno se cae. [122] Quien con perros se echa, con pulgas se levanta. [123] La ou la chèvre est attachée, il faut qu’elle broute. [124] Por la calle de despues se va à la casa de nunca. [125] Le vesti degl’avvocati sono fodrate dell’ostinazion dei litiganti. [126] Ogni cosa si sopporta, eccetto il buon tempo. [127] Nella prosperità non fumano gl’altari. [128] Quien con ropa agena se viste, en la calle se queda encueros. [129] Chi non vede il fondo, non passi l’acqua. [130] Avant traversé rivier, pas juré maman caiman. This and one or two other Haytian proverbs quoted in this volume I have derived from a curious article, _Les mœurs et la littérature négres_, by Gustave D’Alaux, in the _Revue des deux Mondes_, Mai 15me, 1852. [131] No me digas oliva, hasta que me veas cogida. [132] Prends le premier conseil d’une femme, et non le second. [133] Non v’è il peggior ladro d’un cattivo libro. [134] Los muertos abren los ojos a los vivos. [135] Es ist besser, das Kind weine denn der Vater. [136] Nace en la huerta lo que no siembra el hortelano. [137] Oro è, che oro vale;—and of the multitudes that are rushing to the Australian gold-fields, some may find this also true: Più vale guadagnar in loto che perder in oro. [138] Una spada tien l’altra nel fodro. [139] Qui porte épée, porte paix. [140] Chi dinanzi mi pinge, di dietro mi tinge. The history of the word “sycophant,” and the manner in which it has travelled from its original to its present meaning, is a very striking confirmation of this proverb’s truth. [141] How and why it is that extremes here meet, and what are the inner affinities between a democracy and a tyranny, Plato has wonderfully traced, _Rep._, ii. p. 217. [142] See Jeremy Taylor’s _Dissuasive from Popery_, part 2, b. 1. sect. 11, § 6. [143] “_Extremes meet._ Truths, of all others the most awful and interesting, are too often considered as _so_ true, that they lose all the power of truths, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.”—COLERIDGE, _Aids to Reflection_. LECTURE V. THE MORALITY OF PROVERBS.