Beware, gentle knight – the greatest monster of them all is reason.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESCan we ever have too much of a good thing?
More Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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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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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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A stout heart breaks bad luck.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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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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Get the better of yourself – this is the best kind of victory.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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Where there’s music there can be no evil.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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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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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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Where envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.
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