Beware, gentle knight – the greatest monster of them all is reason.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESTo be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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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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Let every man mind his own business.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.
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Every man is the son of his own works.
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Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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