Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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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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Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
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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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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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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
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All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.
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There are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls.
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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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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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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.