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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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
They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
Miguel de Cervantes
Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
Miguel de Cervantes
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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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
Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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