Ο Θεός αργεί μα δεν ξεχνάει.
“God delays, but He does not forget.”
Justice may be slow to arrive, but it eventually catches up with wrongdoing.
— Traditional Greece Wisdom, Greece
Source: Traditional Greek proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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Doing something after a delay is preferable to never doing it at all.
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A painful past experience makes a person overly cautious afterward.
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