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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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
There's no love lost between us.
Miguel de Cervantes
Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
Miguel de Cervantes
A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
Miguel de Cervantes
I'll turn over a new leaf.
Miguel de Cervantes
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
Miguel de Cervantes
Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
Miguel de Cervantes
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
Miguel de Cervantes
Think before thou speakest.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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
Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
Miguel de Cervantes
I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.
Miguel de Cervantes
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Miguel de Cervantes
Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
Miguel de Cervantes
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
Miguel de Cervantes
