Spanish proverbs

Neither serve one who has been a servant, nor beg of one who has been a beggar.

It is better to strive with a stubborn ass than to carry the wood on one's back.

Italians talk to women, Frenchmen to the learned, and the Spaniard talks to God.

What children hear their parents say by the fireside they repeat in the highway.

Plough deep whilst sluggards sleep, And you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Make sure you have many books and many friends -- as long as they are good ones.

The day I did not make my toilette, there came to my house one I did not expect.

For whom sword and courage are not enough, corslet and lance will not be enough.

Of your wife and your tried friend believe nothing but what you know for certain.

The stone is hard and the drop is small, but a hole is made by the constant fall.

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