Provençal expression

Qu toujour pren e rèn noun douno, a la fin cadun l'abandouno

Money

Literal translation

he who always takes and never gives, in the end everyone leaves him

Meaning

who always takes and never gives ends up abandoned by all

Explanation

Constant stinginess ends up isolating the one who practices it, warns this proverb on social reciprocity, literally "he who always takes and never gives, in the end everyone leaves him".

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Tira soucitto cause worry a plus que lis uei pèr plourahe's lost everything Tirarié de pessu au mabre/ei vitrohe's exceedingly stingy li sòu venon pas en picant dóu pèdmoney doesn't fall from the sky es paure coume Jobhe's as poor as Job sènso argènt te couneissieran pas, emé d'argènt te couneissiras paswithout money nobody knows you, with money you no longer know yourself