Get the better of yourself – this is the best kind of victory.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESPatience and shuffle the cards.
More Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Let every man mind his own business.
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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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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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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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To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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Where envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.
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It is good to live and learn.
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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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