Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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Believe there are no limits but the sky.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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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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There is no proverb that is not true.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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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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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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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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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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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.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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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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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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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.