Portuguese proverbs

If you would grow poor without perceiving it, employ workmen and go to sleep.

Be sure not to owe anything to the rich, and don't lend anything to the poor.

When it is in an unlucky phase, the vulture below, shits on the vulture above.

Eat of your own, and call yourself mine (i.e. Be my servant and find yourself).

Go not with every hunger to the cupboard, nor with every thirst to the pitcher.

It befits the king to be liberal, for he is sure of never falling into poverty.

The master orders the man, the man orders the cat, and the cat orders her tail.

If old age was the same as wisdom, any old donkey would be a celebrated Justice.

He who make more of you than he is wont, either means to cheat you or wants you.

The ass that trespasses on a stranger's premises will leave them laden with wood.

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