Miguel de Cervantes Quotes (73 quotes)

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„Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.“
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„There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.“
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„One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.“
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„Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.“
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„I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.“
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„There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.“
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„'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.“
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„Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.“
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„Man appoints, and God disappoints.“
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„Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.“
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„No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.“
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„Every man is the son of his own works.“
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„Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.“
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„A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.“
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„Jests that give pains are no jests.“
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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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„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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„The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.“
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„He preaches well that lives well.“
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„A person dishonored is worst than dead.“

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Miguel de Cervantes
Author born: September 29, 1547
Author died: April 23, 1616
Nationality: Spanish
Author Profession: Novelist

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