Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo.
“The devil knows more from being old than from being the devil.”
Long experience teaches more wisdom than natural cunning alone.
— Traditional Spain Wisdom, Spain
Source: Traditional Spain proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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