One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESThink before thou speakest.
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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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Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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Give the devil his due.
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Get the better of yourself – this is the best kind of victory.
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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Comparisons are odious.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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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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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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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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