2214 French Proverbs / Page 51
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Ingratitude is a kind of weakness; the clever are never ungrateful.1002.
Ingratitude is the mother of every vice.1003.
Io get what we want, we must accept some things we don't want. No rose without a thorn.1004.
Iron may be rubbed so long that it gets heated.1005.
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.1006.
It is a good horse that never stumbles.1007.
It is a hard winter when one wolf eats another.1008.
It is a long day, a day without bread.1009.
It is a sorry house in which the cock is silent and the hen crows.1010.
It is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach.1011.
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.1012.
It is all one whether you are bit a dog or a bitch.1013.
It is always the impossible that happens.1014.
It is always well to keep hold of your horse's bridle.1015.
It is at home, not in public, that one washes his dirty linen.1016.
It is better to be the first on one's race than the last.1017.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.1018.
It is better to bend than break.1019.
It is better to have to do with God than with his saints.1020.
It is better to leave the child's nose dirty than wring it off.