Top 15 Mateo Alemán Quotes

Better a thrifty son-in-law and poor, than a glutton who is rich.

The doctor begins where the apothecary ends, and the clergyman where the doctor ends.

The wise man's rule is worth much more to him than the fool's revenue.

He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.

It is the treason that finds favour, and not the traitor who is guilty of it.

How oft he finds himself the last, who was the first to saddle.

A little pebble will a waggon overturn.

Idleness is the open field of perdition, well tilled and sown with evil thoughts.

An unsatisfactory agreement is less harmful than a successful lawsuit.

He soon retires (i.e., into a cloister) who finds religion late.

Even the ass wearies of work.

On a day when you can dine on dry bread in your own house, do not seek to eat tender peacocks in the house of another.

Those who are not bettered by kind treatment, or moved by soft words, must be brought under by the application of stern and rigorous punishment.

Where wedges are worthless, the finger nails may serve.

Even as there is no virtue which is wanting to the busy man, so there is no vice which does not bear the idle company.