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For Men May Prove And Use Their Friends, As The Poet Expresses It, Usque Ad Aras, Meaning That A Friend Should Not Be Required To Act Contrary To The Law Of God.

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For Men May Prove

Miguel De Cervantes

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For Men May Prove And Use Their Friends, As The Poet Expresses It, Usque Ad Aras, Meaning That A Friend Should Not Be Required To Act Contrary To The Law Of God.

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When We Leave This World, And Are Laid In The Earth, The Prince Walks As Narrow A Path As The Day-laborer.

Be A Terror To The Butchers, That They May Be Fair In Their Weight; And Keep Hucksters And Fraudulent Dealers In Awe, For The Same Reason.

Don Quixote Followed Nature, And Being Satisfied With His First Sleep, Did Not Solicit More. As For Sancho, He Never Wanted A Second, For The First Lasted Him From Night To Morning, Indicating A Sound Body And A Mind Free From Care; But His Master, Being Unable To Sleep Himself Awakened Him, Saying, "i Am Amazed, Sancho, At The Torpor Of Thy Soul; It Seems As If Thou Wert Made Of Marble Or Brass, Insensible Of Emotion Or Sentiment!

All Persons Are Not Discreet Enough To Know How To Take Things By The Right Handle.

Wine Taken In Moderation Never Does Any Harm.

An Honest Man's Word Is As Good As His Bond.

Other Men's Pains Are Easily Borne.

One Shouldn't Talk Of Halters In The Hanged Man's House.

It Is Good To Live And Learn.

A Closed Mouth Catches No Flies.

There Is No Love Lost Between Us.

Well-gotten Wealth May Lose Itself, But The Ill-gotten Loses Its Master Also.

When Life Itself Seems Lunatic, Who Knows Where Madness Lies? Perhaps To Be Too Practical May Be Madness. To Surrender Dreams, This May Be Madness ...maddest Of All Is To See Life As It Is And Not As It Should Be.

When God Sends The Dawn, He Sends It For All.

Since We Have A Good Loaf, Let Us Not Look For Cheesecakes.

That One Man Scorned And Covered With Scars Still Strove With His Last Ounce Of Courage To Reach The Unreachable Star.

A Stout Heart Breaks Bad Luck.

Don't Put Too Fine A Point To Your Wit For Fear It Should Get Blunted.

He Had A Face Like A Blessing.

The Reason For The Unreason With Which You Treat My Reason , So Weakens My Reason That With Reason I Complain Of Your Beauty.

Blessed Be He Who Invented Sleep, A Cloak That Covers All A Man's Thoughts.

Jests That Give Pains Are No Jests.

A Man Without Honor Is Worse Than Dead.

One Who Has Not Only The Four S's, Which Are Required In Every Good Lover, But Even The Whole Alphabet; As For Example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; The X Indeed, Is Too Harsh A Letter To Agree With Him, But He Is Young And Zealous.

Delay Always Breeds Danger.

Those Who'll Play With Cats Must Expect To Be Scratched.

Jealousy Sees Things Always With Magnifying Glasses Which Make Little Things Large, Of Dwarfs Giants, Of Suspicions Truths.

Riches Are Of Little Avail In Many Of The Calamities To Which Mankind Are Liable.

All Sorrows Are Less With Bread.

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In The Night All Cats Are Gray.

True Valor Lies In The Middle Between Cowardice And Rashness.

To Be Good To The Vile Is To Throw Water Into The Sea.

Proverbs Are Short Sentences Drawn From Long Experience.

One Should Not Talk Of Hatters In The House Of The Hanged.

Tis The Only Comfort Of The Miserable To Have Partners In Their Woes.

Let Every Man Mind His Own Business.

And For The Citation Of So Many Authors, 'tis The Easiest Thing In Nature. Find Out One Of These Books With An Alphabetical Index, And Without Any Farther Ceremony, Remove It Verbatim Into Your Own... There Are Fools Enough To Be Thus Drawn Into An Opinion Of The Work; At Least, Such A Flourishing Train Of Attendants Will Give Your Book A Fashionable Air, And Recommend It For Sale.

Where Envy Reigns Virtue Can't Exist, And Generosity Doesn't Go With Meanness.

For The Army Is A School In Which The Miser Becomes Generous, And The Generous Prodigal; Miserly Soldiers Are Like Monsters, But Very Rarely Seen.

Pray, Look Better, Sir... Those Things Yonder Are No Giants, But Windmills.

My Heart Is Wax Molded As She Pleases, But Enduring As Marble To Retain.

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.

Never Look For Birds Of This Year In The Nests Of The Last.

Good Actions Ennoble Us, And We Are The Sons Of Our Deeds.

Ill-luck, You Know, Seldom Comes Alone.

Tomorrow Will Be A New Day.

Many Count Their Chickens Before They Are Hatched; And Where They Expect Bacon, Meet With Broken Bones.

Digo, Paciencia Y Barajar. What I Say Is, Patience, And Shuffle The Cards.

Fair And Softly Goes Far.

Be Slow Of Tongue And Quick Of Eye.

The Proof Is In The Pudding.

She Who Desires To See, Desires Also To Be Seen.

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Do You See Over Yonder, Friend Sancho, Thirty Or Forty Hulking Giants? I Intend To Do Battle With Them And Slay Them.

It Requires A Long Time To Know Anyone.

All Sorrows Are Bearable, If There Is Bread.

Though Gods Attributes Are Equal, Yet His Mercy Is More Attractive And Pleasing In Our Eyes Than His Justice.

Liberty Is One Of The Most Precious Gifts Which Heaven Has Bestowed On Man; With It We Cannot Compare The Treasures Which The Earth Contains Or The Sea Conceals; For Liberty, As For Honor, We Can And Ought To Risk Our Lives; And, On For The Other Hand, Captivity Is The Greatest Evil That Can Befall Man.

God Bears With The Wicked, But Not Forever.

Love Is Influenced By No Consideration, Recognizes No Restraints Of Reason, And Is Of The Same Nature As Death, That Assails Alike The Lofty Palaces Of Kings And The Humble Cabins Of Shepherds; And When It Takes Entire Possession Of A Heart, The First Thing It Does Is To Banish Fear And Shame From It.

Take Away The Motive, And You Take Away The Sin.

When We Are Asleep, We Are All Equal.

Nothing Costs Less Nor Is Cheaper Than Compliments Of Civility.

Wit And Humor Belong To Genius Alone.

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Captivity Is The Greatest Of All Evils That Can Befall One.

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It Is Better That A Judge Should Lean On The Side Of Compassion Than Severity.

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She Wanted, With Her Fickleness, To Make My Destruction Constant; I Want, By Trying To Destroy Myself, To Satisfy Her Desire.

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What Man Can Pretend To Know The Riddle Of A Woman's Mind?

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El Pan Comido Y La Compan? |a Deshecha. With The Bread Eaten, The Company Breaks Up.

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He That Will Not When He May, When He Would, He Should Have Nay.

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A Good Name Is Better Than Bags Of Gold.

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Alas! All Music Jars When The Soul's Out Of Tune.

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Journey Over All The Universe In A Map, Without The Expense And Fatigue Of Traveling, Without Suffering The Inconveniences Of Heat, Cold, Hunger, And Thirst.

The Woman Who Is Resolved To Be Respected Can Make Herself Be So Even Amidst An Army Of Soldiers.

Liberty, As Well As Honor, Man Ought To Preserve At The Hazard Of His Life, For Without It Life Is Insupportable

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The Treason Pleases, But The Traitors Are Odious.

Let Me Leap Out Of The Frying-pan Into The Fire; Or, Out Of God's Blessing Into The Warm Sun.

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.

He That Gives Quickly Gives Twice.

Little Said Is Soon Amended.

When The Head Aches, All The Members Partake Of The Pain.

Thou Art A Cat, And A Rat, And A Coward.

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History Is The Depository Of Great Actions, The Witness Of What Is Past, The Example And Instructor Of The Present, And Monitor To The Future.

There Is A Remedy For Everything But Death; Who, In Spite Of Our Teeth, Will Take Us In His Clutches.

Where One Door Shuts Another Opens.

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That Which We Are Capable Of Feeling, We Are Capable Of Saying.

Mere Flimflam Stories, And Nothing But Shams And Lies.

There Is No Proverb That Is Not True.

Cunning Cheats Itself Wholly, And Other People Partially.

You Cannot Eat Your Cake And Have Your Cake.

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That Which Costs Little Is Less Valued.

Seek For Good, But Expect Evil.

Three Things Too Much, And Three Too Little Are Pernicious To Man; To Speak Much, And Know Little; To Spend Much, And Have Little; To Presume Much, And Be Worth Little.

The Ass Will Carry His Load, But Not A Double Load; Ride Not A Free Horse To Death.

Too Much Sanity May Be Madness And The Maddest Of All, To See Life As It Is And Not As It Should Be.

The Little Birds Have God For Their Caterer.

I Do Not Insist," Answered Don Quixote, "that This Is A Full Adventure, But It Is The Beginning Of One, For This Is The Way Adventures Begin.

The Reputation Of A Woman May Also Be Compared To A Mirror Of Crystal, Shining And Bright, But Liable To Be Sullied By Every Breath That Comes Near It.

There Is Also This Benefit In Brag, That The Speaker Is Unconsciously Expressing His Own Ideal. Humor Him By All Means, Draw It All Out, And Hold Him To It.

Riches Are Able To Solder Up Abundance Of Flaws.

Tell Me What Company Thou Keepest And I'll Tell Thee What Thou Art.

Don't Put All Your Eggs In One Basket.

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When In Doubt, Lean To The Side Of #‎ Mercy .

There's No Taking Trout With Dry Breeches.

Love Is A Power Too Strong To Be Overcome By Anything But Flight.

When Thou Art At Rome, Do As They Do At Rome.

Good Wits Jump; A Word To The Wise Is Enough.

Well, There's A Remedy For All Things But Death, Which Will Be Sure To Lay Us Flat One Time Or Other.

The Phoenix Hope, Can Wing Her Way Through The Desert Skies, And Still Defying Fortune's Spite; Revive From Ashes And Rise.

Among The Attributes Of God, Although They Are Equal, Mercy Shines With Even More Brilliance Than Justice.

It Is One Thing To Praise Discipline, And Another To Submit To It.

The Wounds Received In Battle Bestow Honor, They Do Not Take It Away.

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.

Sorrow Was Made For Man, Not For Beasts; Yet If Men Encourage Melancholy Too Much, They Become No Better Than Beasts.

Sancho Panza By Name Is My Own Self, If I Was Not Changed In My Cradle.

When A Man Says, "get Out Of My House! What Would You Have With My Wife?" There Is No Answer To Be Made.

You Are A Devil At Everything, And There Is No Kind Of Thing In The 'versal World But What You Can Turn Your Hand Into.

They Must Take Me For A Fool, Or Even Worse, A Lunatic. And No Wonder ,for I Am So Intensely Conscious Of My Misfortune And My Misery Is So Overwhelming That I Am Powerless To Resist It And Am Being Turned Into Stone, Devoid Of All Knowledge Or Feeling.

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.

The Wise Hand Does Not All The Tongue Dictates.

I Find My Familiarity With Thee Has Bred Contempt.

You Must Not Think, Sir, To Catch Old Birds With Chaff.

Dine On Little, And Sup On Less.

Blessings On Him, Who Invented Sleep.

Truth May Be Stretched, But Cannot Be Broken, And Always Gets Above Falsehood, As Does Oil Above Water.

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.

Great Expectations Are Better Than A Poor Possession.

Great Expectations

No Fathers Or Mothers Think Their Own Children Ugly; And This Self-deceit Is Yet Stronger With Respect To The Offspring Of The Mind.

God Exalts The Man Who Humbles Himself.

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.

There Is No Greater Folly In The World Than For A Man To Despair.

Health And Cheerfulness Make Beauty

For Hope Is Always Born At The Same Time As Love.

Great People Create Great Acts Of Kindness.

The Most Difficult Character In Comedy Is That Of The Fool, And He Must Be No Simpleton That Plays That Part.

Truth Will Rise Above Falsehood As Oil Above Water.

We Are All As God Made Us And Frequently Much Worse.

When The Severity Of The Law Is To Be Softened, Let Pity, Not Bribes, Be The Motive.

Let Every Man Look Before He Leaps.

Men Of Great Talents, Whether Poets Or Historians, Seldom Escape The Attacks Of Those Who, Without Ever Favoring The World With Any Production Of Their Own, Take Delight In Criticising The Works Of Others.

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Our Hours In Love Have Wings; In Absence, Crutches.

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There Is Nothing So Subject To The Inconstancy Of Fortune As War.

I Must Speak The Truth, And Nothing But The Truth.

Speak The Truth

Laziness Never Arrived At The Attainment Of A Good Wish.

Many Go Out For Wool, And Come Home Shorn Themselves.

The Poet May Say Or Sing, Not As Things Were, But As They Ought To Have Been; But The Historian Must Pen Them, Not As They Ought To Have Been, But As They Really Were.

If You Are Ambitious Of Climbing Up To The Difficult, And In A Manner Inaccessible, Summit Of The Temple Of Fame, Your Surest Way Is To Leave On One Hand The Narrow Path Of Poetry, And Follow The Narrower Track Of Knight-errantry, Which In A Trice May Raise You To An Imperial Throne.

Every Dog Has His Day.

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