Let sleeping dogs lie

Meaning: Don't stir up trouble that has settled down.

Origin: English proverb popularized by Chaucer in Troilus and Criseyde (1385).

Translations

• French: Ne réveillez pas le chat qui dort (literally: Don't wake the sleeping cat)
• Spanish: Mejor no menear el avispero (literally: Better not to stir the wasp's nest)
• Japanese: 寝た子を起こすな (Neta ko wo okosu na) (literally: Don't wake the sleeping child)

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