grasp all, lose all

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• Catalan: qui molt abraça, poc estreny — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Catalan: qui molt abraça i poc estreny pateix de poc seny — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Chinese Cantonese: 貪字得個貧 /贪字得个贫 (taam1 zi6 dak1 go3 pan4) — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Chinese Mandarin: 貪多必失 /贪多必失 (tānduōbìshī) — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Chinese Mandarin: 欲盡得,必盡失 /欲尽得 — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Chinese Mandarin: 必尽失 (yù jǐn dé, bì jǐn shī) — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Chinese Mandarin: 樣樣都要,全數失掉 /样样都要 — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Chinese Mandarin: 全数失掉 (yàngyàng dōuyào, quánshù shīdiào) — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Finnish: joka kuuseen kurkottaa, se katajaan kapsahtaa — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Finnish: parempi pyy pivossa kuin kymmenen oksalla — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• French: qui trop embrasse mal étreint — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Hungarian: aki sokat markol, keveset fog — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Italian: chi troppo vuole nulla stringe — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Japanese: 二兎を追う者は一兎をも得ず (nito o ou mono wa itto o mo ezu) — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Japanese: 欲の熊鷹股裂く (yoku no kumataka mata saku) — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Polish: ten, kto chce wszystko, może stracić wszystko — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Portuguese: quem tudo quer tudo perde — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Russian: за двумя́ за́йцами пого́нишься, ни одного́ не пойма́ешь (za dvumjá zájcami pogónišʹsja, ni odnovó ne pojmáješʹ) — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Spanish: la avaricia rompe el saco — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Spanish: quien mucho abarca, poco aprieta — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Swedish: den som gapar efter mycket mister ofta hela stycket — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Swedish: gapa efter mycket — one who wants everything, may lose it all
• Vietnamese: tham thì thâm — one who wants everything, may lose it all