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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
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
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
In a village of La Mancha,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
— Miguel De Cervantes
All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Casildea de Vandalia, the rawest and best
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
With life many things are remedied.
— 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
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
He who sings frightens away his ills.
— Miguel De Cervantes
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
Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
— Miguel De Cervantes
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
— Miguel De Cervantes
He preaches well that lives well.
— 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
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
Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker
— Miguel De Cervantes
Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
— 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
What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
— Miguel De Cervantes
It takes all sorts (to make a world
— Miguel De Cervantes
When a rich man is hurt, his wail goeth heavens high. (Sancho Panza)
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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
[He] is not going to exit to applause, even if the entire human race should favor him.
— 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
"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
Mountains breed learned men and shepherds' huts house philosophers.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
— Miguel De Cervantes
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
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
— Miguel De Cervantes
The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
— Miguel De Cervantes
God helps everyone with what is his own.
— Miguel De Cervantes
I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
— Miguel De Cervantes
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