Il ne faut jamais défier un fou de mal faire.Never challenge a fool to do wrong.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Rome n’a pas été faite en un jour.Rome was not built in a day.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVache ne sait ce que vaut sa queue jusqu’à ce qu’elle l’ait perdue.A cow does not know what her tail is worth until she has lost it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMoine qui demande pour Dieu demande pour deux.The monk that begs for God’s sake begs for two.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes mauvaises nouvelles ont des ailes.Bad news has wings.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSouffler le chaud et le froid.To blow hot and cold.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSi le diable sortait de l’enfer pour combattre, il se présenterait aussitôt un Français pour accepter le défi.Were the devil to come from hell to fight, there would forthwith be a Frenchman to accept the challenge.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes gros larrons ont toujours les manches pleines de baillons.Great thieves always have their sleeves full of gags.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMieux vaut avoir ami en voye qu’or ou argent en corroye.Better to have a friend on the road than gold or silver in your purse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAssez n’y a si trop n’y a.There’s not enough if there’s not too much.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFin contre fin n’est pas bon pour faire doublure.Fine and fine make but a slender doublet.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl faut vouloir ce qu’on ne peut empêcher.One must needs like what one cannot hinder.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn bon repas doit commencer par la faim.A good repast ought to begin with hunger.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPoint d’argent, point de Suisse.No money no Swiss.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA la queue gît le venin.In the tail lies the venom.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUne faute niée est deux fois commise.A fault denied is twice committed.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSi le ciel tombait il y aurait bien des alouettes prises.If the sky were to fall we should catch plenty of larks.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTel en pâtit qui n’en peut mais.Many a one suffers for what he can’t help.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui s’acquitte, s’enrichit.He who gets out of debt enriches himself.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPorter lanterne à midi.To carry a lantern in mid-day.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesJoyeuse vie père et mère oublie.A merry life forgets father and mother.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChat échaudé craint l’eau froide.A scalded cat dreads cold water.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA la chandelle la chèvre semble demoiselle.By candle-light a goat looks like a lady.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesJ’aime mieux un raisin pour moi que deux figues pour toi.Rather a single grape for me than a brace of figs for thee.
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