Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
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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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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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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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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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Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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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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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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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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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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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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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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There is no proverb that is not true.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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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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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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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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When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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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 shall be as secret as the grave.