Prends le premier conseil d’une femme et non le second.Take a woman’s first advice and not her second.
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Il vaut mieux faire envie que pitié.Better to be envied than pitied.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA tout il y a commencement.Everything must have a beginning.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe mal vient à cheval et s’en va à pied.Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui écoute aux portes, entend plus qu’il ne désire.He who listens at doors hears more than he desires.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui court deux lièvres, n’en prendra aucun.He that hunts two hares will catch neither.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA dur âne dur aiguillon.For a stubborn ass a hard goad.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui cache peut trouver.He that hides can find.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuand Dieu envoie la farine le diable enlève le sac.When God sends flour the devil carries off the sack.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMariage d’épervier: la femelle vaut mieux que le mâle.A hawk’s marriage: the hen is the better bird.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLongues paroles font les jours courts.Long talk makes short days.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui dit averti, dit muni.Forewarned, forearmed.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMuraille blanche papier de fou.A white wall is the fool’s paper.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes larrons s’entrebattent et les larcins se découvrent.When thieves fall out the thefts are discovered.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMorceau avalé n’a plus de goût.There is no flavour in a swallowed morsel.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa faute est grande comme celui qui la commet.The fault is great in proportion to him who commits it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’ignorance des hommes fait bouillir le pot aux prêtres.Men’s ignorance makes the pot boil for priests.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMaille à maille on fait le haubergeon.Link by link the coat of mail is made.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe ventre emporte la tête.The belly overrules the head.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui ne souffre pas seul, ne souffre pas tant.Company in distress makes trouble less.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCe que fait la louve plaît au loup.What the she-wolf does (or brings forth) pleases the he-wolf.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesVoix du peuple, voix de Dieu.The people’s voice, God’s voice.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesGrand vanteur, petit faiseur.Great boaster, little doer.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPrès de l’église et loin de Dieu.The nearer the church the farther from God.
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Read the saying and check its sources