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Miguel de Cervantes
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Miguel de Cervantes
Age: 69 †
Born: 1547
Born: January 1
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
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More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes
All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
Miguel de Cervantes
God exalts the man who humbles himself.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
Miguel de Cervantes
Let the worst come to the worst.
Miguel de Cervantes
A good name is better than bags of gold.
Miguel de Cervantes
Let every man mind his own business.
Miguel de Cervantes
Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
Miguel de Cervantes
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
Miguel de Cervantes
For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
Miguel de Cervantes
Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
Miguel de Cervantes
That which costs little is less valued.
Miguel de Cervantes
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
Miguel de Cervantes
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Miguel de Cervantes
'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
Miguel de Cervantes
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Miguel de Cervantes
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
Miguel de Cervantes
Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
Miguel de Cervantes
