How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESWit and humor belong to genius alone.
More Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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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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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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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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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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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?
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