…in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.
– Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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- All sorrows are less with bread. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- That which costs little is less valued. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- I don’t see what my arse has to do with enchantings! – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship’s days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- …but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- He who sings scares away his woes. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- There is remedy for all things except death – Don Quixote De La Mancha – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Honesty’s the best policy. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Anyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- A closed mouth catches no flies. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Simulant – something that doesn’t exist but pretends to….Dissimulant – an object that exists but pretends not to. – Stanisaw Lem
- Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- A single thought, he considered, could do all sorts of harm. Harm to what, he wasn’t sure, but he identified it as harm. – Adam P Knave
- I mean you ACRES of harm,’ Dalrymple growled. ‘Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through. – Derek Landy
- Hate the sin, not the sinner, isn’t that what good people say? Or are you asking yourself at what point does the sin overtake the sinner? – Katie McGarry
- When you have no real power, go public — really public. The public is where the real power is. – Elizabeth Warren
- When you have no real power, go public-”really public. The public is where the real power is. – Elizabeth Warren
- Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.Separating them is what makes a fraud, hypocrite, alter ego. – Richie Norton
- Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.Separating them is what makes a fraud, hypocrite, alter ego. – Richie Norton
- The [true] intellectual is he who does not let harm done to others and nor let any harm done to even one’s own self. – Dada Bhagwan
- Less fear, more courage.Less doubt, more faith.Less talking, more action.Less ignorance, more knowledge. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Love yourself so much that you can never harm yourself. Remember, you can never harm others without harming yourself. – Debasish Mridha
- Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves. – Carl Zimmer
- Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. – Albert Camus
- You cry in your room. I cry in my room. Mom cries in Mom’s room. And in the morning everyone pretends like they never cried once in their life. – Natasha Friend
- Children are very wiseintuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends. – VC Andrews
- No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend. – Auliq Ice
- What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope. – Audre Lorde
- Whenever someone ‘pretends’ as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field… – Assegid Habtewold
- Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. – Harold Holzer
- When there’s a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there’s public input, the people usually win. – Morgan Carroll
- For Madison, on the other hand, -œa Public Debt is a Public curse,- and -œin a Representative Government greater than in any other.-26 – Joseph J Ellis
- It’s a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others. – Ben Aaronovitch