Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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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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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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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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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
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A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
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Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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Believe there are no limits but the sky.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.
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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
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With life many things are remedied.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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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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He who gives early gives twice.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.