Ng ko er a chad er a Ngesias, el ngemuu er a mla mokom.
“It is like the men of Ngesias, clamoring over what they had already lost.”
There is no use lamenting over something that cannot be recovered.
— Traditional Palau Wisdom, Palau
Source: Traditional Palauan proverb; documented in A. Obak & R. K. McKnight, Palauan Proverbs, and Palauan Language Online (tekinged.com/misc/proverbs.php)
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