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Elías Canetti

Elías Canetti

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Death accepted with resignation is no honor.

Elías Canetti

Elías Canetti

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I hate judgments that only crush and do not transform.

Elías Canetti

Elías Canetti

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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Commit yourself to God with all your heart, for many times He tends to shower His mercies when hopes are driest.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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What madness or what folly leads me to recount the faults of others, when I have so much to say about my own?

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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The path of virtue is very narrow, and the path of vice, wide and spacious.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Love and desire are two different things; not everything that is loved is desired, nor is everything that is desired loved.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Sir, sorrows were not made for beasts, but for men; but if men feel them too much, they become beasts.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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If jealousy is a sign of love, it is like a fever in a sick man, where having it is a sign of having life, but a sick and ill-disposed life.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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The one who does not know how to enjoy good fortune when it comes, should not complain if it passes.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that the heavens gave to men; with it, the treasures that the earth and the sea hold cannot be equaled: for freedom, as well as for honor, life can and should be risked.