Aeque pars ligni curvi ac recti valet igni.Collected Works of Erasmus: Adages II I 1 to II VI 100. English equivalent: As long as there is life there is hope.Cantera Ortiz de Urbina, Jesús (16 November 2005).The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. "Action taken to put something right is often more unpleasant or damaging than the original problem.".English equivalent: The remedy is often worse than the disease Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). English equivalent: Gluttony kills more than the sword.English equivalents: Words are leaves, deeds are fruits.Translations: Deeds, not words - motto of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, at Kings Point, New York, USA.The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time. English equivalent: Sparing is the first gaining.
Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p.
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