To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESMaybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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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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Give the devil his due.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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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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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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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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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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Comparisons are odious.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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