Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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I have other fish to fry.
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With life many things are remedied.
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Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.
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He preaches well that lives well.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.