Thread: Another original proverb; please check my translation.

Dishonesty and disbelief are sisters; a liar believes only lies.

Nechestnost' i neverie -- sestri; lgun verit tol'ko lzhyam.

lgun verit tol'ko lzhyam

Лгун верит только лжи
Хотя лучше сказать так: лжец верит только вранью (это синонимы, просто звучит лучше)

Can you explain, Defensor, why lzhi is preferrable to lzhyam.

Being uncountable, "ложь" is never used in plural.

Originally Posted by translationsnmru

Being uncountable, "ложь" is never used in plural.

Aha! So lozh' is more like an abstraction, that is falseness, or falsehood, rather than lie. And it's feminine, as many abstractions are in Russian. In Latin, too, I think most (all ?) unreal things, abstractions, are feminine.

This is completely tangential:

you have quite a few posts with "proverbs", but if it's "original" (i.e. you came up with it), it cannot be a proverb -- proverbs are popular, widely known/established, widely used, etc.; you should call these "epigrams", perhaps