Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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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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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
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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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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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Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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Comparisons are odious.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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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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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.
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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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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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Good Christians should never avenge injuries.