Miguel de Cervantes: He ... got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for.

He ... got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wi — Miguel de Cervantes

He ... got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for.

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Heaven's help is better than early rising. — Miguel de Cervantes
Por las cosas que dicen que dije cuando loco, podéis considerar las que diré y h — Miguel de Cervantes
They must needs go whom the Devil drives. — Miguel de Cervantes
Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences. — Miguel de Cervantes
In order to understand, I destroyed myself. — Fernando Pessoa
The degree of introspection achieved by Nietzsche had never been achieved by any — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot
He says every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you hav — Mark Twain
Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but — Victor Hugo
To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived. — Fernando Pessoa
Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are — Fernando Pessoa
Fear arises sooner than anything else. — Leonardo da Vinci