Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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Little said is soon amended.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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Until death it is all life.
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Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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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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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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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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All sorrows are less with bread.
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned books, just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.
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When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.