The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. — Quoted

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“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.”

Miguel de Cervantes · Knowledge

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

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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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I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

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