Top 23 Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote Quotes
#2. Now, tell me which is the greater deed, raising a dead man or killing a giant?" "The answer is self-evident," responded Don Quixote. "It is greater to raise a dead man.
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#3. I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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#4. Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals.
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#5. As soon as Don Quixote had read the inscription on the parchment he perceived clearly that it referred to the disenchantment of Dulcinea, and returning hearty thanks to heaven that he
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#6. I know who I am," said Don Quixote, "and who I may be, if I choose: not only those I have mentioned but all the Twelve Peers of France and the Nine Worthies as well; for the exploits of all of them together, or separately, cannot compare with mine.
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#8. 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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#9. This is Michelangelo, and I think it's pretty fucked-up you don't even know which one is yours anymore. You've probably sent Raphael into a depression.
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#11. That is the nature of women," said Don Quixote. "They reject the man who loves them and love the man who despises them.
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#12. Do you mean to say that the story is finished?" said Don Quixote. "As finished as my mother," said Sancho.
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#14. Open thine arms and receive, too, thy son Don Quixote, who, if he comes vanquished by the arm of another, comes victor over himself, which, as he himself has told me, is the greatest victory anyone can desire.
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#15. If the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is always won through favor or because of the high estate of the person, second is won because of pure justice, and by this calculation third becomes second, and the first becomes third ...
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#16. When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.
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#18. After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.
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#19. But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back. Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LVII)
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#21. Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue.
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#23. I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.
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