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Many lords, many laws.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Where drums beat, laws are dumb.

Proverbs and old sayings British

With customs we live well, but laws undo us.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Win your lawsuit and lose your money.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about money

When there are two in a lawsuit only a third will profit from it.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The maker of laws must be severe; who executes them must be generous.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Fearing laws makes one happy every day; withholding truth from heaven worries one all the time.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about happiness, truth, time, day

A meagre compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Because he killed his wife he took shelter with his in-laws.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about wife

New lords, new laws.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Men make laws; women make morals.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.

Proverbs and old sayings French about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

New laws, new roguery.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Few laws, good nations.

Proverbs and old sayings German about nation, good, good luck

The more laws the less justice.

Proverbs and old sayings German about justice

For the upright there are no laws.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit.

Proverbs and old sayings German

As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fasting

May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, rightness