Arabic term
Saudi Arabia
English-Arabic Financial Translator
Native in: Arabic (Variant: Egyptian)
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English, Arabic, and 1 more.
إن أنت أكرمت الكريم ملكته وإن أنت أكرمت اللئيم تمردا
شكرا
Proposed translations
Do not cast your pearls before swine
This link contains other similar expressions and phrases in other languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearls_Before_Swine
Egypt
Quality communicates you with Arab world
Native in: Arabic (Variants: Egyptian, Syrian, UAE, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, Standard-Arabian (MSA), Saudi ) 
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English, German to Arabic
Be generous to a generous person and you'd win him, be generous to a mean person and he'd rebel on y
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Be generous to a generous person and you'd win him, be generous to a mean person and he'd rebel on you
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Ghada Samir
10 mins
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Nesrin
: The use of the conditional tense here is incorrect ("you'd win him"). I've checked other translations on that wiki page and there are several errors.
19 mins
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Egypt
NATIVE SPEAKER OF MEDICINE
Native in: Arabic 
, English
Works in: Arabic to English, English to Arabic, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
A courtesy lent to an upright person wins you his favor forever but, to a lowly person, will only yi
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The full translation:
A courtesy lent to an upright person wins you his favor forever but, to a lowly person, will only yield ill-treatment
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Note added at 25 mins (2008-02-22 18:50:56 GMT)
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1- A courtesy lent to an upright person wins you his favor forever but a lowly soul will take it/you for granted.
2- A courtesy lent to an upright person wins you his favor forever but a lowly soul will only demand more.
Yemen
Where Accuracy Matters
Native in: Arabic (Variants: Palestinian, Yemeni, Tunisian, Moroccan, Lebanese, Kuwaiti, Syrian, Algerian, UAE, Sudanese, Jordanian, Saudi , Standard-Arabian (MSA), Libyan, Iraqi, Egyptian)
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English, Arabic, and 1 more.
If you are kind to a magnanimous man, your kindness puts him in your debt,...
If you are kind to a magnanimous man, your kindness puts him in your debt, while it makes the base more arrogant.
[هذه ترجمة: قسطنطين ثيودري]
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