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One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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
I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Nothing flows from her, vile rabble.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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
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
With these meager scraps of Latin and the like, you may perhaps be taken for a scholar, which is honorable and profitable these days.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
You should know, Sancho, that a man is not worth more than any other if he does not do more than any other.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Friend to friend no more draws near, and the jester's cane has become a spear
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
There is a remedy for everything except death, responded Don Quixote,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Your Grace is more fit to be a preacher than a knight-errant," said Sancho. "Knights-errant
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Ye love-smitten host, know that to Dulcinea only I am dough and sugar-paste, flint to all others; for her I am honey, for you aloes. For
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
I was born like everyone else, and a man must not live in dependence on anyone except God;
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The man who fights for his ideals is the man who is alive.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
All sorrows are less with bread.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
One man is no more than another, if he do no more than what another does.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
— 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
What I can tell your grace is that it deals with truths, and they are truths so appealing and elegant that no lies can equal them.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
For the truth may run fine but will not break, and always rises above falsehood as oil above water;
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
A king's crumb is worth more than a lord's loaf." 'This
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
A closed mouth catches no flies.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
What covers you discovers you.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Thou knowest that my voice is sweet, That is if thou dost hear; And I am moulded in a form Somewhat below the mean.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Nay, what is even worse, he may become a poet, which they say is an incurable and infectious disease." "This
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
There was no more beautiful creature in the whole world
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
This, however, is of but little importance to our tale; it will be enough not to stray a hair's breadth from the truth in the telling of it.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Love is invisible, and comes in and goes out as he likes, without anyone calling him to account for what he does.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Where one door shuts, another opens.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Anyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing. An olla
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
There is no book so bad ... that it does not have something good in it.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Scholarship without virtue is like pearls pearls
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
All human efforts to communicate - even in the same language - are equally utopian, equally luminous with value, and equally worth the doing.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
By the Street of By and By you arrive at the House of Never
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Knight of the Ill-Favored Face.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
That which costs little is less valued.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
It is never my custom to plunder those I over come.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Let his sin be his punishment, let him eat it with his bread, and let that be an end to it.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Vagabond knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The sadness of the heart rises to the face, and in the eyes may be read the history of that which passes in the soul.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
There are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
removal of the wool from those venerable countenances depended upon it.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
It is the privilege and charm of beauty to win the heart and secure good-will,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
When a rich man is hurt, his wail goeth heavens high. (Sancho Panza)
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
In a village of La Mancha,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Casildea de Vandalia, the rawest and best
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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
When a man knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Path of knight-errantry, and in pursuit of that calling I despise wealth, but not honour. I
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Windmills were giants, and the monks' mules dromedaries, flocks of sheep armies of enemies,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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
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
We have come to the church, Sancho.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
He'd just fallen off a rock and got a little bit spifflicated in the ribs.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
And many folks think there's bacon when there's not even a hook to hang it on.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
For hope is always born at the same time as love ...
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Not only a countess but a nymph of the greenwood,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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
Men have to have friends even in hell.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The road is always better than the inn.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch on his throne.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Could see you all strung by the gills, like sardines on a twig!
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Mountains breed learned men and shepherds' huts house philosophers.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Who was the first man that scratched his head? For to my thinking it must have been our father Adam.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
He was by profession a humanist, and that his pursuits and studies were making books for the press,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Fortune always leaves a door open in adversity in order to bring relief to it,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The proof of the pudding is the eating.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world! ...
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
no history is bad if it be true. If
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Do you mean to say that the story is finished?" said Don Quixote. "As finished as my mother," said Sancho.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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