Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Get out of harms way.
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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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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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The wicked are always ungrateful.
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Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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Give the devil his due.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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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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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
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When you are at Rome, do as you see.
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God helps everyone with what is his own.
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He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.