All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, … - Miguel de Cervantes

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Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.

Miguel de Cervantes

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

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The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

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The wicked are always ungrateful.

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