Seek for good, but expect evil.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESMy heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
More Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
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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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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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Where one door shuts another opens.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.
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Other men’s pains are easily borne.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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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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Give the devil his due.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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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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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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Where there’s music there can be no evil.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Let every man look before he leaps.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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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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Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.
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