Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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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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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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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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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
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For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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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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There's no love lost between us.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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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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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.
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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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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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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.