Iedosi velnam mazo pirkstiņu, paņems visu roku.
“Give the devil your little finger and he will take your whole hand.”
A small compromise with wrongdoing can quickly grow into something much larger.
— Traditional Latvia Wisdom, Latvia
Source: Traditional Latvian proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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