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Better suffer for truth, than prosper by falsehood.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie, suffering, truth

Better suffer for the truth than prosper in a falsehood.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie, suffering, truth

Falsehood, like a nettle, stings those who meddle with it.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie

It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie, suffering, truth

He who throws himself under the bench will be left to lie there.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie

Falsehood is the Devil's daughter, and speaks her father's tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie, devil

As you make your bed so you must lie on it.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about lie

If you lie down with a man, you may rise up as a woman.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, woman, man

If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie upon thorns when old.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, old, olderness

The heart does not lie.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about lie, heart

Let lie what is too heavy to lift.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about lie

They who come from afar have leave to lie.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about lie

Never speak untruth and falsity knowingly.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about lie

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; Steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about thieves, lie, man

What can't speak can't lie.

Proverbs and old sayings English about lie

Gossip and lying go hand in hand.

Proverbs and old sayings English about lie

A half the truth is often a whole lie.

Proverbs and old sayings English about lie, truth

Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.

Proverbs and old sayings English about lie

A lie has no legs, but a scandal has wings.

Proverbs and old sayings English about lie

Repeating a lie, doesn't make that lie true.

Proverbs and old sayings English about lie