The lion’s not half so fierce as he’s painted.
More Spanish Proverbs:
A malicious man is like a coal sack -- black on the outside and even blacker inside.Spanish
The evil wound is cured, but not the evil name.
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The one-eyed man is a king in the country of the blind.
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The earth produces all things and receives all again.
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He that is not sensible of his loss has lost nothing.
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I left what I knew for what I heard praised, and repented.
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