Il y a fagot et fagot.There are fagots and fagots (all are not alike).
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Les maisons des avocats sont faictes de la teste des folz.Lawyers’ houses are built of fools’ heads.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPlus on remue la merde et plus elle pue.The more you stir it the more it stinks.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBon nageur de n’être noyé n’est pas sûr.A good swimmer is not safe against drowning.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’y a point de héros pour son valet de chambre.No man is a hero in the eyes of his valet.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDe deux maux il faut choisir le moindre.Of two evils choose the least.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn frotte tant le fer qu’à la fin il s’échauffe.Iron may be rubbed so long that it gets heated.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTruie aime mieux bran que roses.A sow prefers bran to roses.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDieu aide à trois sortes de personnes: aux fous, aux enfants, et aux ivrognes.God helps three sorts of people: fools, children, and drunkards.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes honneurs comptent.Much worship, much cost.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPassez-moi la rhubarbe je vous passerai le séné.Give me the rhubarb and you may take the senna.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn ne saurait faire boire un âne s’il n’a pas soif.You cannot make an ass drink if he is not thirsty.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui épargne le vice, fait tort à la vertu.He who spares vice wrongs virtue.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSers comme serf, ou fuy comme cerf.Serve as a serf or fly like a deer.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl faut se défier d’un ennemi réconcilié.Beware of a reconciled enemy. (Take heed of an enemy reconciled.)
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFolle est la brebis qui au loup se confesse.’Tis a silly sheep that makes the wolf her confessor.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA chemin battu ne croît point d’herbe.No grass grows on a beaten road.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPain tant qu’il dure, vin à mesure.Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesRien ne se donne si libéralement que les conseils.Nothing is so liberally given as advice.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesN’éveille pas le chat qui dort.Wake not a sleeping cat.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle.The game is not worth the candle.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMieux nourri qu’instruit.Better fed than taught.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBourdes vrayes ne plaisent jamais.True jokes never please.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes princes ne veulent point de servitudes limitées.Princes will not be served on conditions.
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