We hear "
a single finger does not kill the louse
" in some overseas departments (DOM) and overseas territories (TOM) namely "unity is strength": we are stronger more than one alone, and we will have more chances of successfully killing these parasites with several fingers than with just one.
All power is weak, unless it is united.
Jean de la Fontaine in "The Old Man and his Children".
To read also “Do you want a schluck?”
: what does this expression mean?
Our fabulist, Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695), does not recommend anything else in his fable “The Old Man and his Children” which begins as follows: “All power is weak, unless it is united.
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