He knows best what good is that has endured evil
Лучше всех знает, что такое добро тот, кто испытал зло.
Не отведав горького, не узнаешь и сладкого.
Другие пословицы:
- Death when it comes will have no denial
- Speak (talk) of the devil and he will appear (is sure to appear)
- He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages
- He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil
- When the devil is blind
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
- Idleness is the mother of all evil
- The devil knows many things because he is old
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly
- Death pays all debts
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
- The way (the road) to hell is paved with good intentions
- Death is the grand leveller