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French Proverb
A father is a banker provided by nature. (fathers)
A surgeon should be young a physician old. (doctors)
He who is near the Church is often far from God. (churches)
Set a thief to catch a thief. (crime and criminals)
Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat. (crime and criminals)
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. (destiny)
Fear is a great inventor. (invention and invent)
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. (destiny)
Nothing is more elegant than ready money! (elegance)
The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest. (busyness)
Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first. (deeds and good deeds)
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof. (correction)
He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering. (gifts)
A good meal ought to begin with hunger. (food and eating)
Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have. (food and eating)
In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done? (government)
People always make the wolf more formidable than he is. (fear)
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. (glutton)
Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. (gambling)
There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing. (gambling)
Against change of fortune set a brave heart. (fortune)
No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere. (goals)
Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. (life and living)
Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat. (honesty)
Great talker, great liar. (lies and lying)
Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical. (fashion)
I know by my own pot how the others boil. (experience)
Without grace beauty is an unabated hook. (grace)
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny. (fame)
Marriage is the sunset of love. (marriage)
Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease. (laughter)
Desperate maladies require desperate remedies. (medicine)
There are more fools among buyers than among sellers. (market)
When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow. (leaders and leadersh)
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor. (law and lawyers)
Hope is the dream of a soul awake. (hope)
Liberty has no crueler enemy than license. (liberty)
In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek. (love)
More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar. (persuasion)
The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work. (nationalities and na)
Penny wise is often pound foolish. (misers and misery)
Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged. (prudence)
Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit. (merit)
People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures. (misfortunes)
There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us. (misfortunes)
There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them. (miracles)
There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated. (past)
A closed mouth catches no flies. (speakers and speakin)
People count the faults of those who keep them waiting. (tardiness)
A sin confessed is half forgiven. (sin)
Skeptics are never deceived. (skepticism)
Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work. (talent)
He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention. (speakers and speakin)
The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings. (punctuality)
Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls. (time and time manage)
Life is half spent before one knows what it is. (time and time manage)
Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away. (time and time manage)
Why kill time when one can employ it. (time and time manage)
One is rated by others as he rates himself. (self-esteem)
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. (contentment)
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. (beauty)
One may go a long way after one is tired. (effort)
None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power. (arrogance)
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. (action)
A good swordsman is not given to quarrel. (conflict)
Who loves well, chastises well. (discipline)
Divorce is the sacrament of adultery. (divorce)
To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so. (belief)
We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it. (value)
Youth lives on hope, old age on memories. (youth)
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength. (youth)
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way. (wealth)
Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want. (work)
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