Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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When you are at Rome, do as you see.
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Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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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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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
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It takes all sorts (to make a world
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.
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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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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.
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