Top 100 Quotes About Miguel De Cervantes
#1. Honesty's the best policy. - Miguel de Cervantes Liars prosper. - Anonymous
Stephen King
#2. The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. Miguel de Cervantes
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#3. 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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#4. Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
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#5. Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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#7. History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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#8. But to give him anything to drink was impossible, or would have been so had not the landlord bored a reed, and putting one end in his mouth poured the wine into him through the other; all which he bore with patience rather than sever the ribbons of his helmet.
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#9. 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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#10. When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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#11. 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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#16. Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
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#18. The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.
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#19. We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
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#23. All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.
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#24. She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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#26. And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.
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#27. The village to sell (saving your presence) four pigs, and between dues and cribbings they got out of me little less than the worth of them. As
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#31. For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
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#32. I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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#33. But once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads
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#37. 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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#38. I betook myself to these solitudes, resolved to end here the life I hated as if it were my mortal enemy. But fate would not rid me of it, contenting itself with robbing me of my reason,
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#41. There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
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#44. Perceived a cart covered with royal flags coming along the road they were travelling; and persuaded that this must be some new adventure,
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#46. I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
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#48. That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
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#50. Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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#53. Ye love-smitten host, know that to Dulcinea only I am dough and sugar-paste, flint to all others; for her I am honey, for you aloes. For
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#58. Heaven send us better times! There is nothing but plotting and counter-plotting, undermining and counter-mining in this world.
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#61. I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
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#62. All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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#68. Hear me now, o thou bleak and unbearable world
Thou art base and debauched as can be.
And a knight with his banners all bravely unfurled
Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee
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#69. Pray look better, Sir ... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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#70. It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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#72. Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
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#74. Thou knowest that my voice is sweet, That is if thou dost hear; And I am moulded in a form Somewhat below the mean.
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#75. According to an ancient and common tradition in the kingdom of Great Britain, this king did not die, but was transformed into a raven by the art of enchantment and, in the course of time, he shall return to rule again and regain his kingdom and his scepter.
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#76. 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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#77. Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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#79. "He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."
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#81. "From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
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#84. Love is invisible, and comes in and goes out as he likes, without anyone calling him to account for what he does.
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#86. In the shadow of feigned cripples and false wounds come the strong arms of thieves and very healthy drunkards.
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#87. And letting out thirty groans and sixty sighs and one hundred and twenty curses on the head of the person who'd brought him there, he hauled himself to his feet,
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#89. Consider, that no jewel upon earth is comparable to a woman of virtue and honor; and, that the honor of the sex consists in the fair characters they maintain.
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#90. Another thing to strive for: reading your history should move the melancholy to laughter, increase the joy of the cheerful, not irritate the simple, fill the clever with admiration for its invention, not give the serious reason to scorn it, and allow the prudent to praise it.
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#93. Didn't i tell you they were only windmills? And someone with windmills on the brain could have failed to see that!
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#97. Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
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#98. 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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#100. They were puffing at him with a great pair of bellows; for the whole adventure was so well planned by the duke, the duchess, and their majordomo, that nothing was omitted to make it perfectly successful.
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