2214 French Proverbs / Page 119
- 1181. Might overcomes right.
 - 1182. Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot.
- 1183. Misfortune upon misfortune is not wholesome.
- 1184. Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
- 1185. Misfortunes come on horseback and depart on foot.
- 1186. Misfortunes never come single.
- 1187. Misfortunes that can't be avoided must be sweetened.
- 1188. Misfortunes, when asleep, are not to be awakened.
- 1189. Mistrust is the mother of certainty.
- 1190. Money advances meacocks.
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