As long as the mouse keeps still you can be sure that the cat stays on guard.
More Malagasy Proverbs:
Don't kick a sleeping dog.Malagasy
Do not be like a miser who saves for those who will bury him.
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Sorrow is like rice in an attic: you use a little every day and at the end it is all gone.
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You can catch a cricket in your hand but its song is all over the field.
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Better to be guilty in the eyes of men than in the eyes of God.
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Do not scare the birds you are going to shoot.
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