Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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There's no love lost between us.
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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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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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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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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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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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Let every man mind his own business.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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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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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.
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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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We must not stand upon trifles.
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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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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.