Il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l'ours avant de l'avoir tué.
“Do not sell the bear's skin before you have killed it.”
Do not count on the rewards of something before it is actually achieved.
— Traditional Saint Barthélemy Wisdom, Saint Barthélemy
Source: Traditional French proverb, ancestral heritage of the Norman, Breton and Poitevin settlers of Saint Barthélemy, public-domain oral tradition
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