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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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Every production must resemble its author.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
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Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
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"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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Necessity urges desperate measures.
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It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.
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Nor has his death the world deceived than his wondrous life surprised; if he like a madman lived least he like a wise one died.
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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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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
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