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He who grasps at too much loses everything.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He sleeps securely who has nothing to lose.

Proverbs and old sayings French about nothing

He will not lose his oats for want of braying.

Proverbs and old sayings French

To squeeze an eel too hard is the way to lose it.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Where there is nothing the king loses his rights.

Proverbs and old sayings French about nothing

He who begins and does not finish loses his labour.

Proverbs and old sayings French about end

He who judges between two friends loses one of them.

Proverbs and old sayings French about judges

Princes keep good reckoning, they never lose anything.

Proverbs and old sayings French about good, good luck

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

Proverbs and old sayings French about reason, love

He who recovers but the tail of his cow does not lose all.

Proverbs and old sayings French

What you lose in the fire, you will find amongst the ashes.

Proverbs and old sayings French about fire, fire brigade

If you lend something you may lose it, but not if you give it.

Proverbs and old sayings French

If you lose your wife and fifteen pennies -- oh! what a pity about the money.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wife, money

The laugh is always on the loser.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Who bows to might loses his right.

Proverbs and old sayings German about rightness

Who is over nice, loses many a slice.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Roses and maidens soon lose their bloom.

Proverbs and old sayings German

I will win the horse, or lose the saddle.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Go to the law for a sheep and lose your cow.

Proverbs and old sayings German about law

He who has lost his freedom has nothing else to lose.

Proverbs and old sayings German about nothing