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You fail if you're afraid. Or brave, you may become a king.

Proverbs and old sayings

Better a live beggar than a dead king.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Conquerors are kings; the beaten are bandits.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about criminals

The conquerors are kings; the defeated are bandits.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about criminals

When a king makes a mistake, all the people suffer.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about mistake, suffering, people

It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult to rule one's family.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about rules, family

Even the king saves his money.

Proverbs and old sayings about money

Known by three; Known by the king.

Proverbs and old sayings

A good king is better than an old law.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about law, good, good luck, old, olderness

Better to be a free bird than a captive king.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

That land fares ill where the king's but a babe.

Proverbs and old sayings

In the land of the blind, one-eye is king.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about blind

Fortune is round; it makes one a king, another a dunghill.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth

Must is a king's word.

Proverbs and old sayings English about word

My mind to me is a kingdom.

Proverbs and old sayings English about mind

A king's face should show grace.

Proverbs and old sayings English about grace, face

An illiterate king is a crowned ass.

Proverbs and old sayings English

For want of a nail a kingdom was lost.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dine like a pauper.

Proverbs and old sayings English

At the end of the game the king and the pawn go into the same bag.

Proverbs and old sayings English about games, end