Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESHow will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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Other men’s pains are easily borne.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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Get the better of yourself – this is the best kind of victory.
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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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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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The wicked are always ungrateful.
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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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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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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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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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