2214 French Proverbs / Page 101
2001.
What is true by firelight is not always true by daylight.2002.
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.2003.
What is true is not always probable.2004.
What is worth receiving is worth returning.2005.
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.2006.
What orators lack in depth, they make up for in length.2007.
What the child hears at the fireside is soon known at the parish church.2008.
What the colt learns in youth his continues in old age.2009.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.2010.
What the eye sees not the heart rues not.2011.
What the gauntlet wins the gorget consumes.2012.
What the she-wolf does pleases the he-wolf.2013.
What the sober man keeps in his heart, is on the tongue of the drunkard.2014.
What the sober man thinks the drunkard tells.2015.
What the soldier said isn't evidence.2016.
What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.2017.
What you are doing do thoroughly.2018.
What you can't get is just what suits you.2019.
What you keep rots; what you give flourishes.2020.
What you lose in the fire, you will find amongst the ashes.