Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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Miguel de Cervantes

Profession : Novelist

Birth : September 29, 1547

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

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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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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

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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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Man appoints, and God disappoints.

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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

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True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

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Fair and softly goes far.

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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

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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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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

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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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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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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

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