Quotes from Guzmán de Alfarache — Mateo Alemán
1547–1614 Spain
15 quotes
Idleness is the open field of perdition, well tilled and sown with evil thoughts.
The doctor begins where the apothecary ends, and the clergyman where the doctor ends.
It is the treason that finds favour, and not the traitor who is guilty of it.
An unsatisfactory agreement is less harmful than a successful lawsuit.
The wise man's rule is worth much more to him than the fool's revenue.
Better a thrifty son-in-law and poor, than a glutton who is rich.
He soon retires (i.e., into a cloister) who finds religion late.
Where wedges are worthless, the finger nails may serve.
He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.
How oft he finds himself the last, who was the first to saddle.
A little pebble will a waggon overturn.
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