That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESGet the better of yourself – this is the best kind of victory.
More Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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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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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Comparisons are odious.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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It is good to live and learn.
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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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That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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