One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESMake it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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Give the devil his due.
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.
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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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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Let every man look before he leaps.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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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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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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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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Delay always breeds danger.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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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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That which costs little is less valued.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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