Miguel de Cervantes
Quotations
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“That’s the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“That’s the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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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.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“God bears with the wicked, but not forever.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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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.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“I believe there’s no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“Well, there’s a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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