La fortune la plus amie vous donne le croc-en-jambe.The most friendly fortune trips up your heels.
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Il faut laver son linge sale en famille.Foul linen should be washed at home.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn homme riche n’est jamais laid pour une fille.A rich man is never ugly in the eyes of a girl.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn cerveau ne vaut guère sans langue.A brain is worth little without a tongue.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSuivez la rivière et vous gagnerez la mer.Follow the river and you will reach the sea.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl faut gratter les gens par où il leur démange.Scratch people where they itch.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn ferait un bien gros livre de tous les peut-être qui se disent en un jour.It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesParole jetée va partout à la volée.A word once out flies everywhere.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuand le diable devient vieux il se fait ermite.When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’est chasse que de vieux chiens.There is no hunting but with old hounds.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFi de manteau quand il fait beau.Fie upon a cloak in fair weather.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn revient toujours à ses premières amours.One always returns to one’s first love.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNécessité est mère d’invention.Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAprès perdre perd-on bien.After one loss come many.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNe sont pas tous chasseurs qui sonnent du cor.All are not hunters who blow the horn.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAmour, toux, et fumée, en secret ne font demeurée.Love, a cough, and smoke will not remain secret.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe papier souffre tout.Paper bears anything.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe diable pourrait mourir que je n’hériterais pas de ses cornes.The devil may die without my inheriting his horns.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn n’a jamais vu chèvre morte de faim.No one ever saw a goat dead of hunger.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’y a point de petit ennemi.There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui doute ne se trompe point.Who doubts errs not.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa brebis sur la montagne est plus haute que le taureau dans la plaine.The sheep on the mountain is higher than the bull on the plain.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuand les biens viennent les corps faillent.When goods increase the body decreases.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA bon appétit il ne faut point de sauce.Hunger is the best sauce.
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