I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESGod who gives the wound gives the salve.
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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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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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Think before thou speakest.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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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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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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Many littles make a much.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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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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Until death it is all life.
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That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
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Where envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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Comparisons are odious.
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Other men’s pains are easily borne.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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Every man is the son of his own works.
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Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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It is good to live and learn.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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