"When the severity of the law is to……" — Miguel de Cervantes
"When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive."
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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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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
— John le Carre
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Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
— Claud Cockburn
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It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them…
— Sun Tzu
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Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation…
— Ayn Rand
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Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or…
— Walter Lippmann
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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My…
— Abraham Lincoln
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For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a…
— Rajneesh
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For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities…
— Rajneesh
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The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and…
— Sun Tzu
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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
— Thornton Wilder
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Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely…
— James Madison
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American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned…
— Larry Pressler
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