Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Necessity urges desperate measures.
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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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It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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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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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
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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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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
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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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I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.
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When you are at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.