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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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Miguel De Cervantes

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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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There Is No Proverb That Is Not True.

The Wicked Are Always Ungrateful.

Fortune Leaves Always Some Door Open To Come At A Remedy.

'tis The Maddest Trick A Man Can Ever Play In His Whole Life, To Let His Breath Sneak Out Of His Body Without Any More Ado, And Without So Much As A Rap O'er The Pate, Or A Kick Of The Guts; To Go Out Like The Snuff Of A Farthing Candle, And Die Merely Of The Mulligrubs, Or The Sullens.

She Fights And Vanquishes In Me, And I Live And Breathe In Her, And I Have Life And Being.

Diligence Is The Mother Of Good Fortune, And Idleness, Its Opposite, Never Brought A Man To The Goal Of Any Of His Best Wishes.

A Wise Man Does Not Trust All His Eggs To One Basket.

It Is Past All Controversy That What Costs Dearest Is, And Ought To Be, Most Valued.

Here Lies A Gentleman Bold Who Was So Very Brave He Went To Lengths Untold, And On The Brink Of The Grave Death Had On Him No Hold. By The World He Set Small Store-- He Frightened It To The Core-- Yet Somehow, By Fate's Plan, Though He'd Lived A Crazy Man, When He Died He Was Sane Once More.

The Stomach Carries The Heart, And Not The Heart The Stomach.

Whether The Pitcher Hits The Stone Or The Stone Hits The Pitcher, It Goes Ill With The Pitcher.

All Sorrows Are Bearable, If There Is Bread.

Let Us Not Throw The Rope After The Bucket.

One Of The Most Considerable Advantages The Great Have Over Their Inferiors Is To Have Servants As Good As Themselves.

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

Leap Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Fire.

The Eyes Those Silent Tongues Of Love.

Health And Cheerfulness Make Beauty

Old, That's An Affront No Woman Can Well Bear.

It Will Be Seen In The Frying Of The Eggs.

Our Greatest Foes, And Whom We Must Chiefly Combat, Are Within.

He Had A Face Like A Blessing.

Wit And Humor Do Not Reside In Slow Minds.

The Pen Is The Tongue Of The Soul; As Are The Thoughts Engendered There, So Will Be The Things Written.

There's No Love Lost Between Us.

Do Not Eat Garlic Or Onions; For Their Smell Will Reveal That You Are A Peasant.

The Little Birds Have God For Their Caterer.

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

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.

It Seldom Happens That Any Felicity Comes So Pure As Not To Be Tempered And Allayed By Some Mixture Of Sorrow.

When Good Luck Knocks At The Door, Let Him In And Keep Him There.

The Knowledge Of Yourself Will Preserve You From Vanity.

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.

Whoever Is Ignorant Is Vulgar.

That's The Nature Of Women, Not To Love When We Love Them, And To Love When We Love Them Not.

In Short, Virtue Cannot Live Where Envy Reigns, Nor Liberality Subsist With Niggardliness.

There's No Taking Trout With Dry Breeches.

Urgent Necessity Prompts Many To Do Things, At The Very Thoughts Of Which They Perhaps Would Start At Other Times.

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.

My Memory Is So Bad That Many Times I Forget My Own Name.

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

Every Dog Has His Day.

It's Up To Brave Hearts, Sir, To Be Patient When Things Are Going Badly, As Well As Being Happy When They're Going Well ... For I've Heard That What They Call Fortune Is A Flighty Woman Who Drinks Too Much, And, What's More, She's Blind, So She Can't See What She's Doing, And She Doesn't Know Who She's Knocking Over Or Who She's Raising Up.

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.

Get Out Of Harms Way.

Fair And Softly Goes Far.

Take Away The Cause, And The Effect Ceases.

Cause And Effect

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

Truth Will Rise Above Falsehood As Oil Above Water.

I Know What's What, And Have Always Taken Care Of The Main Chance.

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

By Such Innovations Are Languages Enriched, When The Words Are Adopted By The Multitude, And Naturalized By Custom.

My Honor Is Dearer To Me Than My Life.

For Historians Ought To Be Precise, Truthful, And Quite Unprejudiced, And Neither Interest Nor Fear, Hatred Nor Affection, Should Cause Them To Swerve From The Path Of Truth, Whose Mother Is History, The Rival Of Time, The Depository Of Great Actions, The Witness Of What Is Past, The Example And Instruction Of The Present, The Monitor Of The Future.

Never Stand Begging For That Which You Have The Power To Earn.

There Are Only Two Families In The World, My Old Grandmother Used To Say, The Haves And The Have-nots.

When Life Itself Seems Lunatic, Who Knows Where Madness Lies?

Does The Devil Possess You? You're Leaping Over The Hedge Before You Come At The Stile.

Fly Not, Cowards And Vile Beings, For A Single Knight Attacks You.

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

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

I Had Rather Munch A Crust Of Brown Bread And An Onion In A Corner, Without Any More Ado Or Ceremony, Than Feed Upon Turkey At Another Man?s Table, Where One Is Fain To Sit Mincing And Chewing His Meat An Hour Together, Drink Little, Be Always Wiping His Fingers And His Chops, And Never Dare To Cough Nor Sneeze, Though He Has Never So Much A Mind To It, Nor Do A Many Things Which A Body May Do Freely By One?s Self.

Delay Always Heeds Danger.

Translating From One Language To Another, Unless It Is From Greek And Latin, The Queens Of All Languages, Is Like Looking At Flemish Tapestries From The Wrong Side, For Although The Figures Are Visible, They Are Covered By Threads That Obscure Them, And Cannot Be Seen With The Smoothness And Color Of The Right Side.

It Takes All Sorts (to Make A World

Wind In The Willows

They Must Needs Go Whom The Devil Drives.

One Swallow Alone Does Not Make A Summer.

Make It Thy Business To Know Thyself, Which Is The Most Difficult Lesson In The World

Personal Knowledge

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

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

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

There's No Sauce In The World Like Hunger.

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

A Shy Face Is Better Than A Forward Heart.

Arms Are My Ornaments, Warfare My Repose.

Let The Worst Come To The Worst.

With Life Many Things Are Remedied.

Necessity Urges Desperate Measures.

Desperate Measures

The Man Who Is Prepared Has His Battle Half Fought.

Urgent Necessity Prompts Many To Do Things.

The Bow Cannot Always Stand Bent, Nor Can Human Frailty Subsist Without Some Lawful Recreation.

He Preaches Well That Lives Well

Virtue Is Persecuted By The Wicked More Than It Is Loved By The Good.

Man Appoints, And God Disappoints.

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.

In Hell There Is No Retention.

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.

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

I Shall Be As Secret As The Grave.

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.

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

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.

The Brave Man Carves Out His Fortune, And Every Man Is The Sum Of His Own Works.

The Pen Is The Language Of The Soul; As The Concepts That In It Are Generated, Such Will Be Its Writings.

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.

The Guts Carry The Feet, Not The Feet The Guts.

Valor Lies Just Halfway Between Rashness And Cowardice.

To Think That The Affairs Of This Life Always Remain In The Same State Is A Vain Presumption; Indeed They All Seem To Be Perpetually Changing And Moving In A Circular Course. Spring Is Followed By Summer, Summer By Autumn, And Autumn By Winter, Which Is Again Followed By Spring, And So Time Continues Its Everlasting Round. But The Life Of Man Is Ever Racing To Its End, Swifter Than Time Itself, Without Hope Of Renewal, Unless In The Next That Is Limitless And Infinite.

A Tooth Is Much More To Be Prized Than A Diamond.

Make Yourself Honey And The Flies Will Devour You.

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.

The Worst Reconciliation Is Better Than The Best Divorce.

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

I Had Rather Munch A Crust Of Brown Bread And An Onion In A Corner, Without Any More Ado, Or Ceremony, Than Feed Upon Turkey At Another Man's Table.

The Pen Is The Tongue Of The Mind.

The Pitcher Goes So Often To The Fountain That If Gets Broken.

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

Love And War Are The Same Thing, And Stratagems And Policy Are As Allowable In The One As In The Other.

Maybe The Greatest Madness Is To See Life As It Is Rather Than What It Could Be.

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

Too Much Sanity May Be Madness!

Love Not What You Are But Only What You May Become.

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

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

Facts Are The Enemy Of Truth.

As Ill-luck Would Have It.

Truly I Was Born To Be An Example Of Misfortune, And A Target At Which The Arrows Of Adversary Are Aimed.

Be Not Under The Dominion Of Thine Own Will; It Is The Vice Of The Ignorant, Who Vainly Presume On Their Own Understanding.

Drink Moderately, For Drunkeness Neither Keeps A Secret, Nor Observes A Promise.

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.

Spare Your Breath To Cool Your Porridge.

Wine In Excess Keeps Neither Secrets Nor Promises.

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

Dine On Little, And Sup On Less.

By The Streets Of 'by And By,' One Arrives At The House Of 'never'.

Procrastination

Proverbs Are Short Sentences Drawn From Long Experience.

God Exalts The Man Who Humbles Himself.

For Let Us Women Be Never So Ill-favored, I Imagine That We Are Always Delighted To Hear Ourselves Called Handsome.

Thou Camest Out Of Thy Mother's Belly Without Government, Thou Hast Liv'd Hitherto Without Government, And Thou Mayst Be Carried To Thy Long Home Without Government, When It Shall Please The Lord. How Many People In This World Live Without Government, Yet Do Well Enough, And Are Well Look'd Upon?

A Private Sin Is Not So Prejudicial In This World, As A Public Indecency.

Poesy Is A Beauteous Damsel, Chaste, Honourable, Discreet, Witty, Retired, And Who Keeps Herself Within The Limits Of Propriety. She Is A Friend Of Solitude; Fountains Entertain Her, Meadows Console Her, Woods Free Her From Ennui, Flowers Delight Her; In Short, She Gives Pleasure And Instruction To All With Whom She Communicates.

Beware, Gentle Knight - The Greatest Monster Of Them All Is Reason.

Knowing Who You Are

Let Everyone Turn Himself Around, And Look At Home, And He Will Find Enough To Do.

Forewarned, Forearmed; To Be Prepared Is Half The Victory.

God Bears With The Wicked, But Not Forever.

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

A Closed Mouth Catches No Flies.

A Good Name Is Better Than Bags Of Gold.

It Is Good To Live And Learn.

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 Who Gives The Wound Gives The Salve.

Everything Disturbs An Absent Lover.

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.

From Reading Too Much, And Sleeping Too Little, His Brain Dried Up On Him And He Lost His Judgment.

Fortune May Have Yet A Better Success In Reserve For You And They Who Lose Today May Win Tomorrow.

Liberty ... Is One Of The Most Valuable Blessings That Heaven Has Bestowed Upon Mankind.

There Were No Embraces, Because Where There Is Great Love There Is Often Little Display Of It.

We Ought To Love Our Maker For His Own Sake, Without Either Hope Of Good Or Fear Of Pain.

Wine Taken In Moderation Never Does Any Harm.

Don't Put All Your Eggs In One Basket.

Investment Success

Now Blessings Light On Him That First Invented This Same Sleep. It Covers A Man All Over, Thoughts And All, Like A Cloak.

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

Speak The Truth

Be Slow Of Tongue And Quick Of Eye.

For If He Like A Madman Lived; At Least He Like A Wise One Died.

True Courage Lies In The Middle, Between Cowardice And Recklessness.

In Order To Attain The Impossible, One Must Attempt The Absurd.

Impossible Things

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

"he Preaches Well That Lives Well," Quoth Sancho, "that's All The Divinity I Can Understand."

I Can Tell Where My Own Shoe Pinches Me.

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

Roque...lined His Men Up And Had Them Produce All The Clothing, Jewels, Money, And Other Objects That They Had Stolen Since The Last Time They Had Divided The Spoils. Having Made A Hasty Appraisal And Reduced To Terms Of Money Those Items That Could Not Be Divided, He Split The Whole Into Shares With Such Equity And Exactitude That In Not A Single Instance Did He Go Beyond Or Fall Short Of A Strict Distributive Justice. They Were All Well Satisfied With The Payment Received, Indeed They Were Quite Well Pleased; And Roque Then Turned To Don Quixote.

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

I Would Have Nobody To Control Me; I Would Be Absolute: And Who But I? Now, He That Is Absolute Can Do What He Likes; He That Can Do What He Likes Can Take His Pleasure; He That Can Take His Pleasure Can Be Content; And He That Can Be Content Has No More To Desire. So The Matter 's Over; And Come What Will Come, I Am Satisfied.

There Is No Jewel In The World So Valuable As A Chaste And Virtuous Woman.

A Knowledge Of Thyself Will Preserve Thee From Vanity.

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

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.

It Is Courage That Vanquishes In War, And Not Good Weapons.

The Eating. By A Small Sample We May Judge Of The Whole Piece.

Faint Heart Ne'er Won Fair Lady.

A Bad Year And A Bad Month To All The Backbiting Bitches In The World!.

Every Man Is As God Made Him, Ay, And Often Worse.

In The Night All Cats Are Gray.

There Is No Book So Bad...that It Does Not Have Something Good In It.

Spanish And English

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

The Absent Feel And Fear Every Ill.

One Day, In The San Francisco Walk, He Came Upon Some Badly Painted Figures And Observed That Good Painters Imitate Nature But Bad Ones Vomit It Forth.

The Fear Thou Art In, Sancho," Said Don Quixote, "prevents Thee From Seeing Or Hearing Correctly, For One Of The Effects Of Fear Is To Derange The Senses And Make Things Appear Different From What They Are; If Thou Art In Such Fear, Withdraw To One Side And Leave Me To Myself, For Alone I Suffice To Bring Victory To That Side To Which I Shall Give My Aid;" And So Saying He Gave Rocinante The Spur, And Putting The Lance In Rest, Shot Down The Slope Like A Thunderbolt.

Every Production Must Resemble Its Author.

I Never Thrust My Nose Into Other Men's Porridge. It Is No Bread And Butter Of Mine; Every Man For Himself, And God For Us All.

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.

Honesty's The Best Policy.

My Thoughts Ran A Wool-gathering.

A Little In One's Own Pocket Is Better Than Much In Another Man's Purse.

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

The Man Who Fights For His Ideals Is Alive.

A Silly Remark Can Be Made In Latin As Well As In Spanish.

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

Folly Is Wont To Have More Followers And Comrades Than Discretion.

Let Every Man Mind His Own Business.

Good Christians Should Never Avenge Injuries.

He Who's Never Loved Cannot Be Good.

Behind The Cross Is The Devil.

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.

Give The Devil His Due.

I Am Almost Frightened Out Of My Seven Senses.

I Have Always Heard, Sancho, That Doing Good To Base Fellows Is Like Throwing Water Into The Sea.

Can We Ever Have Too Much Of A Good Thing?

Too Much Of A Good Thing

Controlling My Temper Is Important, ... Sometimes It's Hard, But I Try.

Since Don Quixote De La Mancha Is A Crazy Fool And A Madman, And Since Sancho Panza, His Squire, Knows It, Yet, For All That, Serves And Follows Him, And Hangs On These Empty Promises Of His, There Can Be No Doubt That He Is More Of A Madman And A Fool Than His Master.

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