The Devil Sick would be a Monk
“Dœmon languebat, monachus bonus esse volebat;
Sed cum convaluit, manet ut ante fuit.”
“When the Devil was sick, the devil a monk would be;
When the Devil got well, the devil a monk was he.”
Said of those persons who in times of sickness or danger make pious resolutions, but forget them when danger is past and health recovered.
Monday, January 6, 2014
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