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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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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
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There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
Miguel de Cervantes -
The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
Miguel de Cervantes -
A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
Miguel de Cervantes
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In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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One swallow alone does not make a summer.
Miguel de Cervantes -
I'll turn over a new leaf.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
Miguel de Cervantes -
I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Miguel de Cervantes -
The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
Miguel de Cervantes -
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
Miguel de Cervantes
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All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
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When the headaches, all the members partake of the pain.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
Miguel de Cervantes