charity begins at home
English edit
Proverb edit
- One should help the people closest to oneself before thinking of helping others.
- 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici[1]:
- Charity begins at home, is the voyce of the world, yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his owne executioner.
Translations edit
you should help the people closest to oneself before helping others
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