Other men’s pains are easily borne.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESWit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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Give the devil his due.
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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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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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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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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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Let every man look before he leaps.
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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Delay always breeds danger.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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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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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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He who gives early gives twice.
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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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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
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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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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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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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