Dieu garde la lune des loups.God saves the moon from the wolves.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Le vrai n’est pas toujours vraisemblable.What is true is not always probable.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCelui peut hardiment nager à qui l’on soutient le menton.He may swim boldly who is held up by the chin.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’y a cheval si bien ferré qui ne glisse.Be a horse ever so well shod, he may slip.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes gros poissons mangent les petits.The big fish eat the little ones.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAvec un Si on mettrait Paris dans une bouteille.With the help of an If you might put Paris into a bottle.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui va, il lèche; qui repose, il sèche.He who bestirs himself sucks up, he who lies still dries up.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBons mots n’épargnent nuls.Witticisms spare no one.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBelle, bonne, riche, et sage, est une femme en quatre étages.Fair, good, rich, and wise, is a woman four stories high.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPetit à petit l’oiseau fait son nid.Little by little the bird builds its nest.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuand l’aveugle porte la bannière, mal pour ceux qui marchent derrière.When the blind man carries the banner, woe to those who follow.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa moitié du monde ne sait comment l’autre vit.One half the world knows not how the other half lives.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes Allemands ont l’esprit aux doigts.The Germans carry their wit in their fingers.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn a souvent besoin de plus petit que soi.One often has need of a lesser than oneself.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPauvreté n’est pas vice.Poverty is not a vice.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa guerre fait les larrons, la paix les pend.War makes robbers, peace hangs them.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes belles robes pleurent sur des épaules indignes.Rich garments weep on unworthy shoulders.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSois vraiment ce que tu veux qu’on te croie.Be truly what thou wouldst be thought to be.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesRessembler aux bahutiers, qui font plus de bruit que de besogne.Like box-makers, more noise than work.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuand la porte est basse il faut se baisser.When the door is low one must stoop.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCela fait venir de l’eau au moulin.That brings water to the mill.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesL’abattu veut toujours lutter.He that is thrown would still wrestle.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAux grands maux les grands remèdes.Desperate ills require desperate remedies.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui cesse d’être ami ne l’a jamais été.He never was a friend who has ceased to be one.
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