Quand on se promène avec un écureuil, on apprend à grimper à l'arbre mais aussi à voler.
“When you walk about with a squirrel, you learn to climb the tree, but also to fall.”
Bad company teaches both harmless and harmful habits alike.
— Traditional Angola Wisdom, Angola
Source: Traditional Angola proverb (Solongo), public-domain oral tradition
More Proverbs from Angola
The body is easily satisfied, but not the heart.
Material needs are simple to fulfill, but emotional and spiritual longing is never fully satisfied.
Early corn is best, so the firstborn is the one to delight in.
Being first carries special worth and brings particular joy, as with the earliest ripening corn.
It is the destiny of the donkey to carry the heavy burden.
Some must bear the hardest tasks; duty and role in life are not always chosen.
The mouse does not talk back to the lion.
The weak do not openly challenge the powerful; know your position.
The real journey of discovery begins in old age.
True understanding of life often arrives only with the wisdom of later years.
Do not despise the nut; one day it will be a palm tree.
Do not underestimate something small — it holds the potential to grow into something great.