Concepts of morality

GOOD AND EVIL - SUCCESS

evil will succeed; hold its own > the decent person will suffer

The literature references of the proverb type:

Abbreviation: Buc

Buchanan,D.C.: Japanese Proverbs and Sayings 1965 Norman: Oklahoma U.P.. JAP(transl.)/ENG*,ENG

Proverb on page: 129.

Stolen things eaten are delicious (Japanese)

Abbreviation: DS I

Wander,K.F.W. (ed.): Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon I 1867 -1880 Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.. GER, varia EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

Proverb on page: 1366. Proverb number(s) on page: 1.

Abbreviation: Dür II

Düringsfeld, Ida von — Reinsberg-Düringsfeld., Otto von: Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen II 1875 Leipzig: Hermann Fries.. GER and BOHEM,DAN,DUT,ENG,FR,HUNG,ITA,LAT,POL,SWE etc./GER*

Proverb number(s): 386, 504.

Gestohlen Brot schmeckt wohl / Pain dérobé reveille l'appetit

Abbreviation: Gey

Geyr, H.: Sprichwörter und sprichwortnahe Bildungen im dreisprachigen Petersburger Lexikon von 1731. Symbolae slavicae: Band 13. 1981 Frankfurt/Main / Bern: Peter D. Lang.. GER,LAT,RUS/GER*

Proverb on page: 181. Proverb on page: 92.

Abbreviation: Mie

Mieder, Wolfgang: The Prentice-Hall encyclopedia of World Proverbs. A treasury of wit and wisdom through the ages. 1986 New Jersey: Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall.. glob>ENG*,ENG

Proverb number(s): 11888, 15803, 12644.

A stolen orange is better tasting than your own (Bemba/Afr.)

Abbreviation: P

Mieder, W. (ed.): Proverbium. Sprichwörterforschung 9/1-2. [Original: Proverbium. publié par J. Krzyzanowski, Matti Kuusi, Démétrius Loucatos, Archer Taylor] 1987 [1965-1975 Helsinki: Société de Littérature Finnoise.] Bern: Peter Lang.. varia GLOB>ENG*GER*RUS*FR*

Proverb on page: 145. Proverb on page: 149. Additional number(s) and notes: 439-441.

Abbreviation: PC

Jente,R.: Proverbia Communia. A Fifteenth Century Collection of Dutch Proverbs together with the Low German version. Folklore series 4. 1947 Bloomington: Indiana University publications.. DUT/ENG*,ENG,GER,GRE,LAT

Proverb number(s): 379.

Abbreviation: PPrlf

Boldyrev, V.D. (ed.): Poslovitsy i pogovorki na russkom, latinskom, frantsuzskom, anglijskom i nemetskom jazykah. 1969 Kemerovo: Ministerstvo prosveštšenija RSFSR.. RUS,ENG,FR,GER,LAT

Proverb number(s): 106.

Abbreviation: Schue

Schulze, C.: Die biblischen Sprichwörter der deutschen Sprache. 1860 Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht.. GER

Proverb number(s): 49.

Abbreviation: Seim II

Seim, E.: Ordtøkje og herme II. Norsk Folkeminnelag 89. 1962 Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.. NORW

Proverb on page: 49.

Abbreviation: Sin III

Singer, S.: Sprichwörter des Mittelalters III 1944-1947 Bern: Herbert Lang & Cie.. GER,(LAT,FR etc.)

Proverb on page: 96.

Abbreviation: Sol

Solstrand, Väinö: Ordstäv. Finlands Svenska Folkdiktning III. 1923 Helsingfors:: Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland.. FIN-SWE

Proverb on page: 152.

Abbreviation: Til

Tilley, Morris Palmer: The Proverbs in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 1950 Ann Arbor (MI): University of Michigan Press.. ENG

Proverb on page: 248. Proverb number(s) on page: 779.

Abbreviation: VKs

Kuusi, Matti (ed.): Vanhan kansan sananlaskuviisaus. 1990 [1953] Helsinki: WSOY.. FIN

Proverb on page: 340.

Stolen food tastes sweet (translation Finnish)