Qui vit longtemps, sait ce qu’est douleur.He who lives long knows what pain is.
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Saint qui ne guérit de rien, n’a guère de pélerins.The saint who works no cures has few pilgrims to his shrine.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPéché caché est à demi pardonné.A sin concealed is half pardoned (meaning when care is taken to conceal the scandal).
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui porte un fardeau, en portera bientôt cent.He who carries one burden will soon carry a hundred.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl vaut mieux être fou avec tous que sage tout seul.Better be mad with all the world than wise alone.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes cordonniers sont toujours les plus mal chaussés.Shoemakers are always the worst shod.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn ne peut faire qu’en faisant.To do, one must be doing.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesArgent reçu, le bras rompu.The money paid, the workman’s arm is broken.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui paye bien, est bien servi.He who pays well is well served.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesArgent comptant porte médecine.Ready money works great cures.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa belle plume fait le bel oiseau.Fine feathers make fine birds.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA fripon fripon et demi.To a rogue a rogue and a half.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui prend femme, prend maître.He who takes a wife takes a master.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTout ce qui branle ne tombe pas.Every thing does not fall that totters.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChacun tire l’eau à son moulin.Every one draws the water to his own mill.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn ver se recoquille quand on marche dessus.Tread on a worm and it will turn.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn n’a jamais de marchandise que pour son argent.One never gets more than one’s money’s worth of anything.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBelle chose est tôt ravie.Fair things are soon snatched away.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuand l’arbre est tombé tout le monde court aux branches.When the tree is down everybody runs to the branches.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDe forte coûture forte déchirure.The stronger the seam the worse the rent.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAbsent le chat, les souris dansent.When the cat’s away the mice will play.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe moine répond comme l’abbé chante.The monk responds as the abbot chants.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFiançailles vont en selle et repentailles en croupe.Wedlock rides in the saddle and repentance on the crupper.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn apprend en faillant.One learns by failing.
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