Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.
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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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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
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The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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In the night all cats are gray.
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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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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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The proof of the pudding is the eating.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
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Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
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As ill-luck would have it.
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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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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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Little said is soon amended.