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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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
Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
All is not gold that glisters.
Miguel de Cervantes
Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker
Miguel de Cervantes
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
Miguel de Cervantes
Honesty's the best policy.
Miguel de Cervantes
The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
Miguel de Cervantes
Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
Miguel de Cervantes
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
Miguel de Cervantes
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Miguel de Cervantes
Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
Miguel de Cervantes
If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
Miguel de Cervantes
The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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
Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
Miguel de Cervantes
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
Miguel de Cervantes
Too much sanity may be madness!
Miguel de Cervantes
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Miguel de Cervantes
A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.
Miguel de Cervantes
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
Miguel de Cervantes
