How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESWhere envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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He who gives early gives twice.
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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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Let every man mind his own business.
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That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
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A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Comparisons are odious.
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.
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Believe there are no limits but the sky.
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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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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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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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Until death it is all life.
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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
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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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