Seny

He encouraged the writer Josep Abril i Virgili (1869–1918) to gather the moral stories and illustrate them in a book that was published as Bon seny ("Good sense").

The reason is the erosion of Christian values as fundamental in today's post-Christian Catalan society, which now sees itself as based largely on secular principles.

No vos 'nemoreu, amor, de cap fadrina gallarda que és com la flor d'olivarda molt guapa, i dolenta d'olor My dear one, don't fall in love with any woman who only has good looks, she is like a false yellowhead flower: beautiful, but full of stench (unpleasantness).

Rata magra s'el cruspeix, mes s'ha tant ben atipada, que, de cop, no té passada.

Moral: Quan t'atii la maldat, pensa aixó que es veritat: Panxa prim hi passaràs, massa fart t'hi quedaràs.