Go not with every ailment to the doctor, nor with every plaint to lawyer.
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He made a pit and digged it, and has fallen into the ditch which he made.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
There are many ways to leave this world but only one way to come into it.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about world
He should not complain of being cheated who buys the cloth by the sample.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about being
Basketeer who makes a basket makes a hundred if he's given line and time.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about time
If you have a friend who is a doctor, then send him to your enemy's house.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about enemies, home, house
Go to bed late, rise early, you will see your own harm and that of others.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
A finger's length in a sword, and a palm in a lance, are a great advantage.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
Visits always give pleasure -- if not at the arrival, then at the departure.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about pleasure
If you would grow poor without perceiving it, employ workmen and go to sleep.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about sleep
Be sure not to owe anything to the rich, and don't lend anything to the poor.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about wealth
When it is in an unlucky phase, the vulture below, shits on the vulture above.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
Eat of your own, and call yourself mine (i.e. Be my servant and find yourself).
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
Go not with every hunger to the cupboard, nor with every thirst to the pitcher.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about hunger
It befits the king to be liberal, for he is sure of never falling into poverty.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about poverty
The master orders the man, the man orders the cat, and the cat orders her tail.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about man
If old age was the same as wisdom, any old donkey would be a celebrated Justice.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about olderness, justice, age, wisdom, old
He who make more of you than he is wont, either means to cheat you or wants you.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
The ass that trespasses on a stranger's premises will leave them laden with wood.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
What is marriage, mother? Daughter, it is spinning, bearing children, and weeping.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about marriage, children, mother
