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.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESI have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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Where there’s music there can be no evil.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
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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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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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Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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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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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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