If the Staff be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight. 
Proverbs on a similar topic
- Honesty is the best policy.
- A good name is better than riches.
- One sows and another reaps.
- A fault confessed is half redressed.
- A good conscience is a soft pillow.
- Much shall have more.
- Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
- The sun shines everywhere.
- One beats the bush, and another catches the birds.
- He that has a goose, will get a goose.
- One does the scathe, and another has the scorn.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in the same language
English
- Such captain, such retinue.
- Such priest, such offering.
Similar proverbs in another language
French
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L'honneur à qui vous devez l'honneur.
Honor to whom you owe honor.
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A chair de loup, sauce de chien.
Wolf flesh, dog sauce.
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A petit saint, petite offrande.
A little saint, a little offering.
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Tel couteau, tel fourreau.
Like knife, like sheath.
German
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Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt.
Honor to whom honor is due.
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Wie der Mann, so die Ehre.
Like man, like honor.
Czech
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Komu čest, tomu čest.
Honor to whom honor is due.
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Komu čest, tomu čest, pastuchovi hůl.
Honour to him, honour to him, a shepherd's staff.
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Komu čest, tomu čest, pastýřovi trouba.
Honour to him, honour to the shepherd's shepherd.