Famous Proverbs
99 Proverbs about Laws / Page 3
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A lawsuit for a maravedi consumes a real's worth of paper.22.
Fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors, little health; fond of friars, little honour.23.
Laws go the way kings direct.24.
Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.25.
The Jew ruins himself with passovers, the Moor with wedding feasts, and the Christian with lawsuits.26.
The worst of a lawsuit is that out of one there grow a hundred.27.
A meagre compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.28.
Cats hide their claws.29.
The lion is known by the scratch of his claws.30.
Laws are silent in time of war.