Better to be envied than pitied.
More French Proverbs:
Who eats capon, capon comes to him.French
A white wall is the fool's paper.
French
To go as fast as a friar that is invited to dinner.
French
Don't try to fly before you have wings.
French
To whom do you offer your shells for sale? To people who come from Saint Michel (where shells abound).
French
One cannot be at the oven and the mill at the same time.
French