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.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESThe wicked are always ungrateful.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?
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Every man is the son of his own works.
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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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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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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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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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Let every man look before he leaps.
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Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.
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It is good to live and learn.
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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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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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