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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand. — Miguel De Cervantes

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths. — Miguel De Cervantes

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? — Miguel De Cervantes

Couldst thou find no other sort of punishment for these sinners but bearding them? — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Let each look to himself and not try to make out white black, and black white; for each of us is as God made him, aye, and often worse. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

In hell there is no retention. — Miguel De Cervantes

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones. — Miguel De Cervantes

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one. — Miguel De Cervantes

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Art does not surpass nature but perfects it. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Bien predica quien bien vive.
He who lives well is the best preacher. — Miguel De Cervantes

At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say ... — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. — Miguel De Cervantes

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake. — Miguel De Cervantes

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died. — Miguel De Cervantes

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy. — Miguel De Cervantes

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility. — Miguel De Cervantes

The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

All sorrows are less with bread. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Since Cervantes's magnificent Knight's quest has cosmological scope and reverberation, no object seems beyond reach. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

A travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is almost unexampled even in the literature of that day. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

In a village of La Mancha, — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

He who sings frightens away his ills. — Miguel De Cervantes

Casildea de Vandalia, the rawest and best — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

With life many things are remedied. — Miguel De Cervantes

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. — Miguel De Cervantes

He who has the good to his hand and chooses the bad, that the good he complains of may not come to him. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. — Miguel De Cervantes

When a rich man is hurt, his wail goeth heavens high. (Sancho Panza) — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

When a man knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. — Miguel De Cervantes

My honor is dearer to me than my life. — Miguel De Cervantes

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. Miguel de Cervantes — Cecilia London

Let us make hay while the sun shines. — Miguel De Cervantes

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. — Miguel De Cervantes

Path of knight-errantry, and in pursuit of that calling I despise wealth, but not honour. I — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant. — Miguel De Cervantes

at times the just must pay for sinners. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The dogs bark because we gallop — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

We have come to the church, Sancho. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals. — Miguel De Cervantes

Cervantes said the journey's better than the end. Practices, to me, were the journey. — John Wooden

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. — Miguel De Cervantes

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. — Miguel De Cervantes

Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose. — Miguel De Cervantes

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker — Miguel De Cervantes

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. — Miguel De Cervantes

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes. — Miguel De Cervantes

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up. — Miguel De Cervantes

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house. — Miguel De Cervantes

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

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. — Miguel De Cervantes

It takes all sorts (to make a world — Miguel De Cervantes

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff. — Miguel De Cervantes

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws. — Miguel De Cervantes

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread. — Miguel De Cervantes

Man have to have friends even in hell. — Miguel De Cervantes

Little said is soon amended. — Miguel De Cervantes

For hope is always born at the same time as love ... — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Other men's pains are easily borne. — Miguel De Cervantes

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought. — Miguel De Cervantes

Thank you for nothing. — Miguel De Cervantes

The journey is better than the inn". — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

There are many theologians who are not good in the pulpit but are excellent at recognizing the lacks or excesses of those who preach. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race. — Miguel De Cervantes

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death. — Miguel De Cervantes

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. — Miguel De Cervantes

Not only a countess but a nymph of the greenwood, — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things. — Miguel De Cervantes

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. — Miguel De Cervantes

He finally resolved to call the horse Rocinante. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Your grace, come back, Senor Don Quixote, I swear to God you're charging sheep ! — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

We are all as God made us and frequently much worse. — Miguel De Cervantes

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness. — Miguel De Cervantes

Men have to have friends even in hell. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. — Miguel De Cervantes

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. — Miguel De Cervantes

The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce. — Miguel De Cervantes

"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand." — Miguel De Cervantes

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death. — Miguel De Cervantes

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

What is bought is cheaper than a gift. — Miguel De Cervantes

Mountains breed learned men and shepherds' huts house philosophers. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

He had a face like a blessing. — Miguel De Cervantes

I shall be as secret as the grave. — Miguel De Cervantes

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

[He] is not going to exit to applause, even if the entire human race should favor him. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish. — Aubrey F.G. Bell

Windmills were giants, and the monks' mules dromedaries, flocks of sheep armies of enemies, — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

God helps everyone with what is his own. — Miguel De Cervantes

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice. — Miguel De Cervantes

Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long. — Nathaniel Parker

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself. — Miguel De Cervantes

Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice. — Miguel De Cervantes

It is the privilege and charm of beauty to win the heart and secure good-will, — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

He'd just fallen off a rock and got a little bit spifflicated in the ribs. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things. — Miguel De Cervantes

And many folks think there's bacon when there's not even a hook to hang it on. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra