Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
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There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.
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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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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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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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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
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Necessity urges desperate measures.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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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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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long.
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Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.