Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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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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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.
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Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.
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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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A stout heart breaks bad luck.
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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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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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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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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
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There's no love lost between us.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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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.