Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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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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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy.
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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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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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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
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Necessity urges desperate measures.
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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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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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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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Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
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Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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There is no proverb that is not true.
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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.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.