Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
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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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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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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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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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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 proverb that is not true.
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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
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Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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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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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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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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As ill-luck would have it.
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Comparisons are odious.
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At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.
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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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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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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.
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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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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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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long.