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To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes a man live to ninety-nine.
      - (French) [Proverbs]

To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed at ten, makes a man live years ten times ten.
      - (French) [Proverbs]

To rob a robber is not robbing.
      - (French) [Proverbs]

To rude words deaf ears.
      - (French) [Proverbs]

To rule the mountains is to rule the river.
      - [Proverbs]

To run away is not glorious, but very healthy.
      - (Russian) [Proverbs]

To scare a bird is not the way to catch it.
      - (French) [Proverbs]

To see it rain is better than to be in it.
      - [Proverbs]

To sell honey to one who keeps hives.
      - (Portuguese) [Proverbs]

To separate the men from the boys.
      - [Proverbs]

To silence another, first be silent yourself.
      - (Latin) [Proverbs]

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
      - [Proverbs]

To spend much and gain little is the sure road to ruin.
      - (German) [Proverbs]

To squeeze an eel too hard is the way to lose it.
      - (French) [Proverbs]

To swim and swim more, and be drowned on shore.
      - (Spanish) [Proverbs]

To take ambition from a soldier, is to rob him of his spurs.
      - [Proverbs]

To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.
      - (Chinese) [Proverbs]

To teach is also to learn.
      - (Japanese) [Proverbs]

To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
      - (Latin) [Proverbs]

To the bold man fortune gives her hand.
      - (Spanish) [Proverbs]

To the bold man Fortune holds out her hand.
      - (Portuguese) [Proverbs]

To the devil with so many masters, said the toad to the harrow.
      - (French) [Proverbs]

To the fallen tree, hatchets! hatchets!
      - (Italian) [Proverbs]

To the good listener, half a word is enough.
      - (Spanish) [Proverbs]

To the grateful man give more than he asks.
      - (Spanish) [Proverbs]

To the jaundiced all things seem yellow.
      - (French) [Proverbs]

To the lean pig a fat acorn.
      - (Portuguese) [Proverbs]

To the looker-on no work is too hard.
      - (German) [Proverbs]

To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great.
      - (Indian) [Proverbs]

To the pure all things are pure.
      - (Latin) [Proverbs]

To try and to fail is not laziness.
      - (African) [Proverbs]

To understand a stammerer, you ought to stammer yourself.
      - (Latin) [Proverbs]

To understand your parents' love bear your own children.
      - (Chinese) [Proverbs]

To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject.
      - (Chinese) [Proverbs]

To wait and be patient soothes many a pang.
      - (Danish) [Proverbs]

To wait for luck is the same as waiting for death.
      - (Japanese) [Proverbs]

To want to forget something is to remember it.
      - (French) [Proverbs]

To wash an ass's head is but loss of time and soap. (To reprove a fool is but lost labour.)
      - (French) [Proverbs]

To whom do you offer your shells for sale? To people who come from Saint Michel (where shells abound).
      - (French) [Proverbs]

To whom is he any good, if he is no good to himself?
      - (Latin) [Proverbs]

To whom you tell your secret you surrender your freedom.
      - (Italian) [Proverbs]

To win a war quickly takes long preparation.
      - (Latin) [Proverbs]

To withhold truth is to bury gold.
      - (Danish) [Proverbs]

To work is to pray.
  [Lat., Laborare est orare.]
      - (Latin) [Proverbs]

To you your religion and to me my religion.
      - (Islamic) [Proverbs]

To your son give a good name and a trade.
      - (Spanish) [Proverbs]

To-day a man, to-morrow a mouse.
      - [Proverbs]

To-day for money, to-morrow for nothing.
      - (Dutch, German) [Proverbs]

To-day in finery, to-morrow in filth.
      - (German) [Proverbs]

To-day in gold, to-morrow in the mould.
      - (Danish) [Proverbs]


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