2214 French Proverbs / Page 99
- 981. In a conclave many go in as a pope but come back out as the cardinal they were when they went in.
 - 982. In a good family the husband is deaf and the wife blind.
- 983. In borrowing an angel, in repaying a devil.
- 984. In calm water every ship has a good captain.
- 985. In hawks, hounds, arms, and love, for one pleasure a thousand pains.
- 986. In love and war don't seek counsel.
- 987. In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
- 988. In marriage cheat who can.
- 989. In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?
- 990. In the end it will be known who ate the bacon.
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