Miguel de Cervantes Quotes (20 quotes)

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„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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„Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.“
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„He had a face like a blessing.“
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„A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.“
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„Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.“
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„Fair and softly goes far.“
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„Jests that give pains are no jests.“
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„Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.“
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„A closed mouth catches no flies.“
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„Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.“
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„Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.“
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„Thou hast seen nothing yet.“
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„The eyes those silent tongues of love.“
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„Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.“
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„God bears with the wicked, but not forever.“
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„A person dishonored is worst than dead.“
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„In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.“
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„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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„The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.“
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„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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Author information

Miguel de Cervantes
Author born: January 01, 1970
Author died: January 01, 1970
Nationality: Spanish
Author Profession: Novelist

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