ProverbPedia

French Proverb:
La faiblesse est plus opposée à la vertu que le vice.
English Translation:
The opposite of virtue is weakness rather than vice.

French Proverb:
L'esclave n'a qu'un maître; l'ambitieux en a autant qu'il y a de gens utiles à sa fortune.
English Translation:
The slave has but one master; the ambitious man as many as there are people likely to be useful to him.

French Proverb:
Rien n'est si doux que ce qui est fort.
English Translation:
Nothing is so gentle as that which is strong.

French Proverb:
Un flatteur peut tout risquer avec les grands.
English Translation:
A flatterer may risk everything with the great.

French Proverb:
Il dit tout en deux mots et fait tout en deux mois.
English Translation:
He says all in two words, and does all in two months.

French Proverb:
Autant vaut l'homme comme il s'estime.
English Translation:
A man's value is that which he sets upon himself.

French Proverb:
Une femme qu'on garde est gagnée à demi.
English Translation:
A woman that is watched is half won.

French Proverb:
Un peu d'encens brûlé rajuste bien des choses.
English Translation:
A little incense burned sets most things right.

French Proverb:
Les fous font des festins, et les sages les mangent.
English Translation:
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

French Proverb:
Mieux vaut couard que trop hardi.
English Translation:
'Tis better to be a coward than foolhardy.

French Proverb:
La parole est moitié à celui qui parle, moitié à celui qui l'écoute.
English Translation:
The spoken word belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who hears.

French Proverb:
Voulez-vous cesser d'aimer? Possédez la chose aimée.
English Translation:
To be cured of your longing you need only obtain what you wished for.