Get the better of yourself – this is the best kind of victory.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESA proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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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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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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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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The wicked are always ungrateful.
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Comparisons are odious.
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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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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Where one door shuts another opens.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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Beware, gentle knight – the greatest monster of them all is reason.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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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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Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.
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