Provençal expression

Qu mies noun pòu èstre, emé sa mouié se couche

Wisdom

Literal translation

who cannot do better lies with his own wife

Meaning

for lack of better, one sleeps with one's own wife

Explanation

For lack of better, one makes do with what one has, even in marriage: that's what this resigned proverb recalls, literally "who cannot do better lies with his own wife".

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