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| Loin des yeux, loin de coeur. | Out of site, out of mind.
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| Tout nouveau, tout beau. | A new broom sweeps clean.
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| La parole est d'argent, le silence est d'or. | Speech is silver, but silence is golden.
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| C'est le premier pas quis coûte. | It's the first step that counts.
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| Mieux vaut tard que jamais. | Better late than never.
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| Il pleut des cordes. | It's raining cats and dogs.
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| A chacun son gout. | Everyone to his own taste.
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| Qui se ressemble s'assemble. | Birds of a feather flock together.
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| Les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières. | Great oaks from little acorns grow.
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| Pierre qui roule n'amasse pas de mousse. | A rolling stone gathers no moss.
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| A qui se lève tôt, Dieu prête la main. | The early bird catches the worm.
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| C'est un forgeant qu'on deviant forgeron. | Practice makes perfect.
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| Rira bien qui rira la dernier. | He who laughs last laughs best.
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| Petit à petit l'oiseau fait son nid. | Rome wasn't built in a day.
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| Il n'y a pas de rose sans épine. | There is no rose without thorns.
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| Il faut oublier et pardoner. | Forgive and forget.
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| Beaucoup de bruit pour rien. | Much ado about nothing.
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| C'est le ton qui fait la musique. | It's not what you say but how you say it.
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| L'un meurt donc l'autre vit. | One man's poison is another man's meat.
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| Après la pluie, le beau temps. | Every cloud has a silver lining.
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| À Coeur vaillant rien d'impossible. | Nothing is impossible for a willing heart.
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| À l'impossible nul n'est tenu. | No one is bound to do the impossible.
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| Aux grands maux les grands remèdes. | Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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| Avec des si (et des mais), on mettrait Paris en bouteille. | If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers' hands.
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| Battre le fer pendant qu'il est chaud. | To strike while the iron is hot.
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| Bien mal acquis ne profite jamais. | Ill gotten, ill spent.
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| Bonne renommée vaut mieux que ceinture dorée. | A good name is better than riches.
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| Un clou chasse l'autre. | Life goes on.
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| En tout pays, il y a une lieue de mauvais chemin. | There will be bumps in the smoothest roads.
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| Entre l'arbre et l'écorce il ne faut pas mettre le doigt. | Caught between a rock and a hard place.
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| Il faut casser le noyau pour avoir l'amande. | No pain, no gain.
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| Il faut réfléchir avant d'agir. | Look before you leap.
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| Il ne faut jamais dire «Fontaine, je ne boirai pas de ton eau!» | Never say never.
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| Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard | Leave nothing to chance.
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| Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu. | Where there's smoke, there's fire.
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| Impossible n'est pas français. | There is no such word as "can't."
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| Le mieux est l'ennemi de bien. | Let well enough alone.
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| Les murs ont des oreilles. | Walls have ears.
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| On ne fait pas d'omelette sans casser des oeufs. | You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
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| On ne peut pas avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre. | You can't have your cake and eat it too.
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| Si jeunesse avait, si vieillesse pouvait. | Youth is wasted on the young.
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| Un sou est un sou. | Every penny counts.
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| Tant va la cruche à l'eau qu'à la fin elle se casse. | Enough is enough.
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| Le temps, c'est de l'argent. | Time is money.
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| Tous les goûts sont dans la nature. | It takes all kinds (to make aworld._
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| Un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l'auras. | A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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| Tout ce qui brille n'est pas or. | All that glitters isn't gold.
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| Tout est bien que finit bien. | All's well that ends well.
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| Vouloir, c'est pouvoir. | Where there's a will, there's a way.
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| Charbonnier est maître chez lui. | A man's home is his castle.
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| Les cordonniers sont toujours les plus mal chausses. | The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
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| Deux patrons font chavirer la barque. | Too many cooks spoil the broth.
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| L'erreur est humaine. | To err is human.
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| L'habit ne fait pas le moine. | Clothes don't make the person.
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| Il ne faut pas juger les gens sur la mien. | Don't judge a book by its cover.
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| Il vaut mieux aller au Moulin qu'au médecin. | An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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| Nécessité fait loi. | Beggars can't be choosers.
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| Qui ne dit mot consent. | Silence implies consent.
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| Qui ne risqué rien n'a rien. | Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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| Qui se sent morveaux, qu'il se mouche. | If the shoe fits, wear it.
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| Qui va lentement va sûrement. | Slowly but surely.
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| Tel père, tel fils. | Like father, like son.
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| La vérite sort de la bouche des enfants. | Out of the mouths of babes.
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| La chat parti, les souris dansent. | When the cat's away, the mice will play.
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| Il ne faut jamais mettre la charrue avant les boeufs. | Don't put the cart before the horse.
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