Απ' έξω κούκλα κι από μέσα πανούκλα.
“A pretty doll on the outside, but plague within.”
A person or thing may look beautiful on the surface while hiding something rotten underneath.
— Traditional Greece Wisdom, Greece
Source: Traditional Greek proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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Better late than never.
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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Bean by bean, the sack gets filled.
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