Miguel de Cervantes Quotes - Page 4

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• Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

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  Lying, Literature, Cowardice

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• Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

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  Kindness, Able, Great Person

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.335

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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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  Wise, Running, Anxiety

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.253

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

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  Secret, Promise, Literature

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• Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

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  Food, Cooking, World

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1733). “The history of the valorous and witty knight-errant don Quixote of the Mancha. Tr. by mr. Shelton, and mr. Blunt. Pr. from the quarto ed. of 1620. With cutts from Coypell. And several annotations and amendments, not in any former ed. With a preface”, p.31

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• A closed mouth catches no flies.

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  Mouths

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”, p.257

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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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  Grandmother, Two, Diversity

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.643, Collector's Library

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• In the night all cats are gray.

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  Cat, Night, Gray

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.339

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• Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

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  Expectations, Great Expectations, Poor

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• Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

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  Military, Victory, Half

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.346

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• There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

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  Remedy, All Things

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote”, p.148

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• God who gives the wound gives the salve.

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  God, Giving, Wounds

  Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.310, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

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  Fighting, Men, Evil

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• Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

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  Friendship, Art, Thee

  "Don Quixote".

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• A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

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  Men, Honor

  Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (2011). “Don Quixote”, p.281, Penguin

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• I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

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  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart”, p.258

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• What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?

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  Sex, Men, Mind

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• History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

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  Past, Example, Action

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• They who lose today may win tomorrow.

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  Winning, May, Today

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1979). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”

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• It is good to live and learn.

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  Life, Learning, Evil

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, Part II, Book III, Ch. 32, 1615.

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• Let us make hay while the sun shines.

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  Shining, Hay, Sun

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

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

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  Son, Literature, Deeds

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• Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

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  Love, Strong, Overcoming

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1948). “The Living Thoughts of Cervantes”

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• A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

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  Trust, Wise, Men

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• There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

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  Great Love, Littles, Embrace

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