Devil Turned Hermit
All Resolutions
Description:
The Devil, in the guise of an old man with horns, has a female visitor shown to the door and his worldly paraphernalia swept away while he immerses himself in prayer among symbols of asceticism.
The caption reads in the original French: Quand le Diable devient vieux, il se fait ermite.
This proverb has a loose English equivalent in The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be.