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That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
Miguel de Cervantes
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That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.
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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
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Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Miguel de Cervantes