Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one's self.
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Every production must resemble its author.
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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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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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"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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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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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Believe there are no limits but the sky.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.