Familiarity

Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

Latin: Nimia familiarĭtas contemptum parit.

French: La familiarité engendre le mépris.

Italian: La famigliarità fà dispregiamento.

“E tribus optimis rebus tres pessimæ oriuntur: e veritate odium; e familiaritate contemptus; e felicitate invidia.”—Plutarch (translated).

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.