Set hard heart against hard hap.
More French Proverbs:
A hawk's marriage: the hen is the better bird.French
Princes use men as the husbandman uses bees.
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He who loses his temper is in the wrong.
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The money paid, the workman's arm is broken.
French
Don't run too far, you will have to return the same distance.
French
Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.
French