In a conclave many go in as a pope but come back out as the cardinal they were when they went in.
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The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.
Proverbs and old sayings French about longing, life
Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.
Proverbs and old sayings French about wish, people, old, olderness
When a cow is lost it is something to recover its tail, were it only to make a handle for one's door.
Proverbs and old sayings French
In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?
Proverbs and old sayings French about state, question
A glaring sunny morning, a woman that talks Latin, and a child reared on wine, never come to a good end.
Proverbs and old sayings French about wine, children, end, woman, good, good luck
Were the devil to come from hell to fight, there would forthwith be a Frenchman to accept the challenge.
Proverbs and old sayings French about hell, fight, devil
If you want to love your household as much as your bread then you will have to knead your wife like dough.
Proverbs and old sayings French about wife, love
I never saw an oft-removed tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as one that settled be.
Proverbs and old sayings French about family
People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.
Proverbs and old sayings French about competition, people
Remember that everyone you ever meet is sure to fear something, to love something, and to have lost something.
Proverbs and old sayings French about fear, love
Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Proverbs and old sayings French
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
Proverbs and old sayings French about idea, happiness
Fish must swim three times: once in the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.
Proverbs and old sayings French about time, wine, water
He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.
Proverbs and old sayings French about attention, fear, lie
Write injuries in dust, But kindnesses in marble. [Fr., Eerivez les injures sue le sable, Mais les bienfaits sur le marbre. ]
Proverbs and old sayings French
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
Proverbs and old sayings French about integrity, union, self-control, love
The Emperor of Germany is the king of kings, the King of Spain king of men, the King of France king of asses, the King of England king of devils.
Proverbs and old sayings French about man
Kindred without friends, friends without power, power without will, will without effect, effect without profit, profit without virtue, is not worth a rush.
Proverbs and old sayings French about power, virtue
What! No star, and you are going out to sea? Marching, and you have no music? Traveling, and you have no book? What! No love, and you are going out to live?
Proverbs and old sayings French about celebrity, music, love
