Afors al larivier kalbas i kase.
“The jug that goes too often to the river breaks in the end.”
Push your luck too many times and it will eventually fail you.
— Traditional Seychelles Wisdom, Seychelles
Source: Traditional Seychelles proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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