Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.
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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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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.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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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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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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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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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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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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Comparisons are odious.
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Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
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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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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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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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The proof of the pudding is the eating.
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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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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.