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He who reforms, God assists.
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
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
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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
It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
Miguel de Cervantes
I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
Miguel de Cervantes
The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
Miguel de Cervantes
Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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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.
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Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
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A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
Miguel de Cervantes
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
Miguel de Cervantes
The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
Miguel de Cervantes
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
Miguel de Cervantes
The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
Miguel de Cervantes
Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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