Qui est avec les loups, il lui faut hurler.He who kennels with wolves must howl.
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Celui gouverne bien mal le miel qui n’en taste et ses doigts n’en lèche.He is a very bad manager of honey who leaves nothing to lick off his fingers.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn apothicaire ne doit être longtemps cocu.An apothecary ought not to be long a cuckold.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFaire bonne mine à mauvais jeu.To put a good face on a bad game.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl est comme le chien du jardinier, qui ne mange point de choux, et n’en laisse pas manger aux autres.He is like the gardener’s dog, who don’t eat cabbages and will let no one else eat them.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui ne gagne, perd.He who does not gain loses.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesRien n’est bon comme le fruit défendu.Nothing so good as forbidden fruit.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa gibecière de l’avocat est une bouche d’enfer.The lawyer’s pouch is a mouth of hell.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNe croire à Dieu que sur bons gages.Trust not to God but upon good security.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTout état, et rien au plat.All state, and nothing on the plate.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesJamais la cornemuse ne dit mot si elle n’a le ventre plein.The bagpipe never utters a word till its belly is full.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl faut tondre les brebis et non les écorchier.Shear the sheep but don’t flay them.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA l’impossible nul n’est tenu.No one is bound to do impossibilities.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn noble prince ou roy n’a jamais pille ne croix.A noble prince or king never has a coin to bless himself.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMieux vaut un pied que deux échasses.One foot is better than two stilts.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChien sur son fumier est hardi.Every dog is valiant in his own kennel.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’est pas échappé qui traîne son lien.He is not escaped who drags his chain.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesElève le corbeau, il te crèvera les yeux.Bring up a raven and he will peck out your eyes.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl ne faut pas lier les ânes avec les chevaux.Asses must not be tied up with horses.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDu dire au fait il y a grand trait.’Twixt the word and the deed there’s a long step.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVouloir, c’est pouvoir.Will is power.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes mariages sont écrits dans le ciel.Marriages are written in heaven.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui est bien, qu’il s’y tienne.Whose is well let him keep so.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTemps, vent, femme, et fortune, changent comme la lune.Weather, wind, women, and fortune change like the moon.
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Read the saying and check its sources