La plus grande finesse est de n’en avoir point.The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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Les plus rusés sont les premiers pris.The most cunning are the first caught.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesErreur n’est pas compte.A mistake is no reckoning.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAu petit pourceau Dieu donne bonne racine.God puts a good root in the little pig’s way.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVentre affamé n’a point d’oreilles.A hungry belly has no ears.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA Rome comme à Rome.At Rome do as Rome does.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn connaît l’ami au besoin.A friend is known in time of need.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl fait bon battre l’orgueilleux quand il est seul.It is good to beat a proud man when he is alone.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui ne retire de sa vache que la queue, ne perd pas tout.He who recovers but the tail of his cow does not lose all.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChacun chien qui aboye ne mord pas.Not every dog that barks bites.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui se ressemble s’assemble.Like will to like.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuand on est bien il faut s’y tenir.When you are well off keep as you are.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui trébuche et ne tombe pas, avance son chemin.He that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl advient souvent en un jour ce qui n’advient en cent ans.That often happens in a day which does not happen in a hundred years.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCelui à bon gage du chat qui en tient la peau.He has a good pledge of the cat who has her skin.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesC’est toujours la plus mauvaise roue qui crie.The worst wheel always creaks most.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBon droit a besoin d’aide.A good cause needs help.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe miel n’est pas pour les ânes.Honey is not for asses.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMieux vaut perdre la laine que la brebis.Better lose the wool than the sheep.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDeniers avancent les bediers.Money advances meacocks.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCent ans de chagrin ne payent pas un sou de dettes.A hundred years of fretting will not pay a halfpenny of debt.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCalomniez, calomniez: il en reste toujours quelque chose.Slander! slander! some of it always sticks.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui trop change, empire.Who often changes, damages.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui paye, a bien le droit de donner son avis.He who pays is fairly entitled to speak his mind.
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