Old wine, and old friend, and old gold are beloved in all places.

[Vin vieux, amy vieux, Y or vieux sont amez en touts lieux.]

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian, writer, aphorist
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “Proverbs in French” (1659) [compiler]
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Howell also gives a Spanish version (in the same source, "Proverbs in Spanish"):

Old wine, and an old friend.
 
[Vino anejo, y amigo viejo.]

See Alfonso X, Bacon (1624), Herbert (1640).

 
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