Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.
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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time.
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I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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Every one in his own house and God in all of them.
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To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
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It is good to live and learn.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.