A man travels as far in a day as a snail in a hundred years.
More French Proverbs:
Deceit always returns to its master.French
A surgeon should be young a physician old.
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One must talk soothingly to the dog until one has passed him.
French
A hundred years of fretting will not pay a halfpenny of debt.
French
True nobility is invulnerable.
French
The chicken sings what the cock teaches him.
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