Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.
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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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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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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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A stout heart breaks bad luck.
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Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
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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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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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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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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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Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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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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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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We must not stand upon trifles.
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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.