Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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

Miguel de Cervantes

• Pleasure
• Envy
• Vices
• Irritation

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

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Pleasure
  • Envy
  • Vices