All Miguel De Cervantes Quotes
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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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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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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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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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
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