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Provençal proverb

Paureta meno lagno.

The Unfortunate

Maritime Provençal

Paureta meno lagno.

Meaning

Poverty breeds ill humour.

Theme

The Unfortunate

Source : La Tour-Keyrié, Recueil de proverbes provençaux (1882), Gallica — public domain. Maritime Mistralian normalisation by Lingua Nostra.

More proverbs on this theme

Au peirau dei doulour cadun a soun escudelloAt the cauldron of sorrows, each has his bowl. Es un tirasso malur.He is a dragging misfortune. Diéu a pas fa toutei lei paureGod has not made all the poor. L'esperanço es lou pan dei malurous.Hope is the bread of the wretched.