Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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One swallow alone does not make a summer.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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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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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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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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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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With life many things are remedied.