Fuente: Eric Marcus, Manual de pesimista, Editorial Norma, 1994, ISBN 958-04-2639-2, pagina 83.
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“67. Never had ill workman good tooles.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“294. A man's discontent is his worst evill.”
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“557. The offender never pardons.”
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“508. He that tells a secret is another's servant.”
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“763. Better speake truth rudely then lye covertly.”
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“376. Little pitchers have wide eares.”
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“497. Little wealth, little care.”
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“155. Good words are worth much, and cost little.”
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“215. Into a mouth shut flies flie not.”
Variant of the Sumerian proverb: Flies enter an open mouth. http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/proverbs/t.6.1.03.html <br class="br">Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“138. Well may hee smell fire whose gowne burnes.”
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“248. Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.”
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“621. Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.”
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“[ A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb. ]”
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“Be useful where thou livest.”
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
“743. God's mill grinds slow but sure.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Fuente: The Temple (1633), The Elixir, Lines 17-20
“720. Be what thou wouldst seem to be.”
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“339. Hee that lies with the dogs riseth with fleas.”
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“676. A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.”
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“719. One sword keepes another in the sheath.”
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“193. If the old dog barke he gives counsell.”
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“1. Man proposeth, God disposeth.”
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“440. Fly the pleasure that bites to-morrow.”
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