Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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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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Comparisons are odious.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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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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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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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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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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Good Christians should never avenge injuries.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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There is no proverb that is not true.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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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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By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.
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When you are at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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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.