Miguel De Cervantes Quotes

#1. 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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#2. History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

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#3. Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.

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#4. The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

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#5. We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.

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#6. Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

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#7. When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

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#8. Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

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#9. Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

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#10. Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

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#11. When in doubt, lean to the side of # mercy .

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#12. When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.

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#13. A man prepared has half fought the battle.

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#14. Pray look better, Sir ... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

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#15. Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.

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#16. When one door is shut, another opens.

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#17. He who's never loved cannot be good.

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#18. Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.

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#19. No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

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#20. We must not stand upon trifles.

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#21. Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

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#22. A person dishonored is worst than dead.

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#23. Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

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#24. I shall be as secret as the grave.

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#25. She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

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#26. Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

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#27. Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

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#28. Let us forget and forgive injuries.

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#29. In the night all cats are gray.

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#30. He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.

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#31. God exalts the man who humbles himself.

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#32. The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

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#33. No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

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#34. The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.

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#35. Let every man mind his own business.

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#36. Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

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#37. 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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#38. I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.

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#39. Behind the cross is the devil.

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#40. Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

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#41. Man appoints, and God disappoints.

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#42. It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

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#43. Every man is the son of his own works.

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#44. Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

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#45. I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

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#46. Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

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#47. Every one in his own house and God in all of them.

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#48. One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

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#49. 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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#50. For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

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#51. Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.

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#52. I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

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#53. An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

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#54. For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

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#55. There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

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#56. Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

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#57. Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

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#58. Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

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#59. 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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#60. They who lose today may win tomorrow.

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#61. The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

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#62. With life many things are remedied.

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#63. The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

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#64. Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

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#65. There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

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#66. Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

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#67. We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.

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#68. By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

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#69. It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

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#70. Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.

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#71. Think before thou speakest.

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#72. You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

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#73. There is nothing costs less than civility.

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#74. Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

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#75. The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

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#76. The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

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#77. Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

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#78. Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

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#79. Virtue is the truest nobility.

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#80. Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

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#81. Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

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#82. It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

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#83. There is no love lost between us.

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#84. Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

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#85. The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

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#86. Man have to have friends even in hell.

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#87. Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.

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#88. Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

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#89. My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

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#90. Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

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#91. When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.

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#92. It is good to live and learn.

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#93. He preaches well that lives well.

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#94. Health and cheerfulness make beauty

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#95. Every dog has his day.

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#96. Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.

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#97. Heaven's help is better than early rising.

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#98. As ill-luck would have it.

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#99. One swallow alone does not make a summer.

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#100. God who gives the wound gives the salve.

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