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VALUES AND PROVERBS

As you can see, proverbs represent our unity and diversity, revealing the richness and uniqueness of our cultures.
Many thanks to the following pupils: Silvia, Cosmina, Ioana si Alexandra (School no. 191, Bucharest, Romania) for illustrating the values below.

ITALY

SPAIN

ROMANIA

PEACE

Dalla prudenza viene la pace, e dalla pace l’abbondanza.
From prudence comes peace and from peace comes adundance.
Nelle case dove regna la pace regna la felicità.
In the houses where peace reigns, happiness reigns.
Vivere in pace è il miglior tesoro per gli uomini.
To live in peace is the best treasure for men.
Chi porta pace è messaggero di Dio.
Who brings peace is messenger of God.

 

PEACE

It´s better to die in peace than to live in war.
Más vale morir en paz que vivir en guerra.

Wherever is peace, God stays, where not, there are Lucifer and Satanas
Donde está la paz, está Dios, donde no, Lucifer y Satanás.

Those who have got peace and happiness, sleep well at night and live well during the day.
Aquellos que tienen paz y felicidad duermen bien durante la noche y viven bien durante el día.

PEACE

Unde este intelepciune este pace, unde este pace este belsug.
Where there is wisdom, there is peace; where there is peace there is wealth.

Sa cumperi vecinii si apoi casa.
You must talk to your neighbours if you want to live in peace.

SOLIDARITY

L’unione fa la forza.
The union makes the strenght.
Amore non conosce misura.
Love doesn’t know any limits.
 La vera carità non vanta quanto dà.
True charity doesn’t boast how much it gives.

 

SOLIDARITY

Those who have friends are rich.
Quien tiene amigos es rico.

It is never late to do some good, do today what you did not do yesterday.
Nunca es tarde para hacer el bien, haz hoy lo que ho hiciste ayer.

 

SOLIDARITY

Unde-s doi puterea creste.
Unity is strength.

EQUALITY

La morte ci rende uguali nella sepoltura, disuguali nell’eternità.
Death makes us equal in the burial, different in the eternity.

 

EQUALITY

Do good things and do not care to whom.
Haz bien y no mires a quién.
When I meet someone I do not care if he is white, black, Jude or Muslim.

Cuando conozco a alguien no me importa si es blanco, negro, judío o musulmán. Me basta con saber que es un ser humano.

 

EQUALITY

In fata mortii toti suntem egali.
The end makes all equal.

FREEDOM/LIBERTY

 

Chi si trova in libertà ha gran bene e non lo sa.
Who lives in freedom has a great richness and doesn’t know it.
 

FREEDOM/LIBERTY

I prefer freedom with poverty than to be rich with prison.
Prefiero la libertad con pobreza que la riqueza en prisión.

 

FREEDOM/LIBERTY

Libertatea-i cel mai pretios giuvaer.
Freedom is worth more than gold.

TOLERANCE

Saggio è chi sa soffrire spesa, danno e martirio.
The savant is a man who knows sufferings and martyrdom.


 

TOLERANCE

It's just enough to know that it is a human being.
Hay un límite en que la tolerancia deja de ser virtud.
Who gets close to a good tree, a good shadow protects him.
Quien a buen árbol se arrima , Buena sombre le cobija.

 

TOLERANCE

Toleranta omului are o limita.
A man can tolerate till his back breaks.

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