Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESWhere envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.
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Other men’s pains are easily borne.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
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To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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