"A private sin is not so prejudicial in……" — Miguel de Cervantes
"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency."
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Miguel de Cervantes
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314 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as…
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any…
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the…
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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars;…
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses…
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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More Indecency Quotes
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Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no…
— Mark Twain
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The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature,…
— Alfred Kinsey
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It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated…
— Emma Goldman
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Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.
— Ibn Majah
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Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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...we must also acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue to live daily in…
— Pope Francis
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What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate…
— Murray Bookchin
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Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle…
— Abraham Coles
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Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a…
— Errol Flynn
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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
— Virginia Woolf
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
— William Shakespeare
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