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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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
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More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
Miguel de Cervantes
Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
Miguel de Cervantes
They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
Miguel de Cervantes
Delay always breeds danger.
Miguel de Cervantes
Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
Miguel de Cervantes
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Miguel de Cervantes
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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
True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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
Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
I shall be as secret as the grave.
Miguel de Cervantes
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
Miguel de Cervantes
We must not stand upon trifles.
Miguel de Cervantes
Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
Miguel de Cervantes
I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
Miguel de Cervantes
I do not insist, answered Don Quixote, that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
Miguel de Cervantes
