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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
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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
The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
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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
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
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
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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
It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
Miguel de Cervantes
My honor is dearer to me than my life.
Miguel de Cervantes
Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
Miguel de Cervantes
Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
Miguel de Cervantes
I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
Miguel de Cervantes
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
Miguel de Cervantes
Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
Miguel de Cervantes
