Proverb, French
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Proverb, French
A father is a banker provided by nature.
Proverb, French
Fathers
Don t dance on a volcano.
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Caution
A surgeon should be young a physician old.
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Doctors
He who is near the Church is often far from God.
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Churches
Set a thief to catch a thief.
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Crime and Criminals
Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.
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Crime and Criminals
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
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Destiny
Fear is a great inventor.
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Invention and Inventor
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
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Destiny
Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
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Elegance
The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
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Busyness
Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.
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Deeds and Good Deeds
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
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Correction
He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering.
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Gifts
A good meal ought to begin with hunger.
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Food and Eating
Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.
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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?
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Government
Gratitude is the heart s memory.
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Gratitude
People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.
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Fear
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
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Glutton
Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
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Gambling
There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
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Gambling
Against change of fortune set a brave heart.
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Fortune
No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.
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Goals
Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
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Life and Living
Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.
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Honesty
Great talker, great liar.
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Lies and Lying
Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.
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Fashion
Partir, c est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)
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Farewells
I know by my own pot how the others boil.
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Experience
Without grace beauty is an unabated hook.
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Grace
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
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Fame
Marriage is the sunset of love.
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Marriage
Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.
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Laughter
He that waits for a dead man s shoes may long go barefoot.
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Hope
Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.
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Medicine
There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
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Market
When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.
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Leaders and Leadership
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
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Law and Lawyers
Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
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Hope
It s good to be clever, but not to show it.
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Intelligence and Intellectuals
Liberty has no crueler enemy than license.
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Liberty
In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
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Love
More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
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Persuasion
The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work.
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Nationalities and Nationalism
Penny wise is often pound foolish.
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Misers and Misery
Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.
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Prudence
Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
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Merit
People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.
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Misfortunes
There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.
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Misfortunes
There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them.
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Miracles
There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
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Past
A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Speakers and Speaking
People count the faults of those who keep them waiting.
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Tardiness
A sin confessed is half forgiven.
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Sin
Skeptics are never deceived.
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Skepticism
Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
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Talent
He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.
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Speakers and Speaking
The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.
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Punctuality
Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
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Time and Time Management
When we don t have what we like, we must like what we have.
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Satisfaction
Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
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Time and Time Management
Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
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Time and Time Management
Why kill time when one can employ it.
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Time and Time Management
One is rated by others as he rates himself.
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Self-esteem
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
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Contentment
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
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Beauty
One may go a long way after one is tired.
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Effort
None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
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Arrogance
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
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Action
A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.
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Conflict
Who loves well, chastises well.
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Discipline
Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
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Divorce
To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.
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Belief
We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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Value
Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
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Youth
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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Youth
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
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Wealth
Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
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Work