Il est bien fou qui s’oublie.He is a great fool who forgets himself.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Homme ne connaît mieux la malice que l’abbé qui a été moine.No man understands knavery better than the abbot who has been a monk.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe plus riche n’emporte qu’un linceul.The richest man carries nothing away with him but a shroud.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’est que d’avoir la clef des champs.There’s nothing like having the key of the fields.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesFemme et melon à peine les connaît-on.A woman and a melon are hard to choose.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAime-moi un peu, mais continue.Love me a little, but love me long.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesD’oiseaux, de chiens, d’armes, d’amours, pour un plaisir mille doulours.In hawks, hounds, arms, and love, for one pleasure a thousand pains.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’est rien si bien fait où l’on ne trouve à redire.There is nothing so well done but may be mended.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes abeilles ne deviennent point frelons.Bees do not become hornets.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn âne ne trébuche pas deux fois sur la même pierre.An ass does not stumble twice over the same stone.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPour un plaisir mille douleurs.For one pleasure a thousand pains.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA longue corde tire qui d’autrui mort désire.He pulls at a long rope who desires another’s death.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAller aux mûres sans crochet.To go mulberry-gathering without a crook.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesD’un sac à charbon ne saurait sortir de blanche farine.White meal is not got out of a coal-sack.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDieu donne le froid selon le drap.God gives the cold according to the cloth.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl faut laisser l’enfant morveux plutôt que lui arracher le nez.It is better to leave the child’s nose dirty than wring it off.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui a bu boira.He who has drunk will drink.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA beau demandeur, beau refuseur.Handsomely asked, handsomely refused.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn ne peut sonner les cloches et aller à la procession.One cannot ring the bells and walk in the procession.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBeaucoup de mémoire et peu de jugement.Much memory and little judgment.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes bons marchés ruinent.Good bargains are ruinous.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui compte sans son hôte, compte deux fois.He that reckons without his host must reckon again.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl ne faut qu’une brebis galeuse pour gâter tout le troupeau.One scabby sheep is enough to spoil the whole flock.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesRien n’a qui assez n’a.He has nothing who has not enough.
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