Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESThose who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
More Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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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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Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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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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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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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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Where there’s music there can be no evil.
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A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
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Get the better of yourself – this is the best kind of victory.
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Many littles make a much.
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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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Other men’s pains are easily borne.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Every man is the son of his own works.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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Beware, gentle knight – the greatest monster of them all is reason.
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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