you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

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• Chinese Mandarin: 良言一句三冬暖 — It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity
• Dutch: vliegen vang je met stroop en niet met azijn — It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity
• Finnish: hunaja toimii paremmin kuin etikka — It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity
• Finnish: kärpäsiä saa enemmän siirapilla kuin tervalla — It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity
• French: plus fait douceur que violence — It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity
• French: on n'attrape pas des mouches avec du vinaigre — It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity
• German: mit einem Tropfen Honig fängt man mehr Fliegen als mit einem Fass Essig — It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity
• Hungarian: kedvességgel / szép szóval többre mész, mint keménykedéssel — It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity
• Italian: si pigliano più mosche in una gocciola di miele che in un barile d'acete — It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity
• Polish: możesz osiągnąć więcej, gdy jesteś miły dla innych — It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity
• Slovene: Več muh se ujame na med kot na kis. — It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity
• Spanish: más moscas se cogen con miel que con hiel — It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity