Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Es, pues, de saber que este sobredicho hidalgo, los ratos que estaba ocioso, que eran los más del año, se daba a leer.

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Je cherche dans la mort la vie, Dans la prison la liberté, La santé dans la maladie, Dans le traître la loyauté. Mais mon infortune est si grande Que le destin impatienté, Si l'impossible je demande, M'a le possible refusé.

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Es natural condición de las mujeres desdeñar a quien las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece

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El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.

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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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...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but by spending it - and not by spending as he please bu...

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

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Remember that there are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul displays its radiance in intelligence, in chastity, in good conduct, in generosity, and in good breeding, and all these qualities may exist in an...

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

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...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 se...

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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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Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a craz...

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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

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All sorrows are less with bread.

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The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water." ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Dulcinea del Toboso es la más hermosa mujer del mundo, y yo el más desdichado caballero de la tierra, y no es bien que mi flaqueza defraude esta verdad. Aprieta, caballero, la lanza, y quítame la vida, pues me has quitado la honra.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his brains dried up to such a degree that he lost the use of his reason.

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