The present Spanish Prime Minister, a certain Pedro Sánchez, recently, and at a political rally, used an old proverb to justify his irregular decisions: "hacer de necesidad, virtud." The English counterpart is: "Make a virtue of necessity", meaning "to acquiesce in doing something unpleasant with a show of grace because one must do it in any case." He was referring to his banding together with unscrupulous terrorists albeit he had sworn repeatedly he would never do it. I could offer him many other proverbs he and his followers could profit from:
-- Once a thief, always a thief.
-- A liar is sooner caught than a cripple.
-- An ill life, an ill death.
-- There are none so blind as those who will not see.
-- You cannot have it both ways.
-- Once a thief, always a thief.
-- A liar is sooner caught than a cripple.
-- An ill life, an ill death.
-- There are none so blind as those who will not see.
-- You cannot have it both ways.
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