Как аукнется, так и откликнется
With accent marks:
Как ау́кнется, так и откли́кнется.
Translation:
What goes around comes around.
Meaning:
As you treat others, so they will treat you.
This proverb is hard to translate literally. "Аукнется" comes from the sound "ау" that Russian people use to find each other in a forest. "Аукнется" is only used in this proverb, you don't find this word anywhere else. So a close to literal translation can be as follows: as you say "ау", you will receive the same response back.
Other Russian proverbs
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Бесплатный сыр только в мышеловке
Free cheese is only in a mousetrap.
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You can't help grief with tears.
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There is no bad withouth good.
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Не рой яму другому, сам в неё попадешь
Do not dig a hole for another one, you will fall into it yourself.
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Some to the forest, some for firewood.
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Where it is thin, it breaks.
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Каждый кулик своё болото хвалит
Each sandpiper praises its swamp.
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Another's soul is darkness.
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