Más vale solo que mal acompañado.
“Better alone than in bad company.”
Solitude is preferable to keeping company that brings you harm.
— Traditional Dominican Republic Wisdom, Dominican Republic
Source: Traditional Dominican Republic proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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