Il n’est orgueil que de pauvre enrichi.There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich.
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La jeunesse revient de loin.Youth may stray afar yet return at last.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes deux font la paire.The two make a pair.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEn peu d’heure Dieu labeure.God’s work is soon done.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes rois ont les mains longues.Kings have long hands.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe mal an entre en nageant.The ill year comes in swimming.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesC’est folie de faire un maillet de son poing.He is a fool who makes a mallet of his fist.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTel maître, tel valet.Like master, like man.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEn sûreté dort qui n’a que perdre.He sleeps securely who has nothing to lose.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui veut noyer son chien, l’accuse de rage.A man who wants to drown his dog says he is mad.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChâteau abattu est moitié refait.A mansion pulled down is half built up again.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesHomme matineux, sain, alègre, et soigneux.The early riser is healthy, cheerful, and industrious.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl fait bien mauvais au bois quand les loups se mangent l’un l’autre.Very hard times in the wood when the wolves eat each other.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA bon chien il ne vient jamais un bon os.A good dog never gets a good bone.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl a battu les buissons et un autre a pris les oisillons.He beat the bushes and another caught the birds.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa pomme est pour le vieux singe.The old monkey gets the apple.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’avare et le cochon ne sont bons qu’après leur mort.The miser and the pig are of no use till dead.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAbondance de biens ne nuit pas.Store is no sore.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe riche a plus de parents qu’il ne connaît.The rich man has more relations than he knows.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn ne prend pas le lièvre au son du tambour.Hares are not caught by the sound of the drum.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVraie noblesse nul ne blesse.True nobility is invulnerable.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBonne epée, point querelleur.A good swordsman is never quarrelsome.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTel menace, qui est battu.The threatener sometimes gets a beating.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes absents ont toujours tort.The absent are always in the wrong.
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