Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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The proof of the pudding is the eating.
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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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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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Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
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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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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
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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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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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In the night all cats are gray.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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As ill-luck would have it.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
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A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.