Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Every one in his own house and God in all of them.
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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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We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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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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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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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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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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Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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Until death it is all life.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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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 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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There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
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Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.