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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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
Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Miguel de Cervantes
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel de Cervantes
When a man says, Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife? there is no answer to be made.
Miguel de Cervantes
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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
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
There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
Miguel de Cervantes
All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
Miguel de Cervantes
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
Miguel de Cervantes
Other men's pains are easily borne.
Miguel de Cervantes
Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
Miguel de Cervantes
The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
Miguel de Cervantes
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
Miguel de Cervantes
What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
Miguel de Cervantes
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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
