When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Quote by Miguel De Cervantes
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Miguel De Cervantes Quotes
- There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
- Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
- Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
- Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
- That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
- 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.
- Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
- Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
- Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Best Quotes
- They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
- I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
- You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
- Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
- These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
- Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
- Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
- I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.