Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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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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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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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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Every production must resemble its author.
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One swallow alone does not make a summer.
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But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
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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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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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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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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.