I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESTo be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
More Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Let every man mind his own business.
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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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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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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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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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Where there’s music there can be no evil.
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Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
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