To fish in troubled waters
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- Better a glorious death than a shameful life
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf
- No man is wise at all times
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- To kill two birds with one stone
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl
- While there is life there is hope
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
- An ass in a lion's skin
- The game is not worth the candle
- To flog a dead horse
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink