Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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Miguel de Cervantes

Profession : Novelist

Birth : September 29, 1547

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Miguel de Cervantes

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

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Every man is the son of his own works.

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He preaches well that lives well.

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Virtue is the truest nobility.

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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

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That which costs little is less valued.

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Jests that give pains are no jests.

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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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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

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Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

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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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

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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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