Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra better known as Cervantes was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote is considered as the first modern European novel and many regard it as one of the best novels ever written.
As Quoted by Cervantes:
All beauty does not inspire love; some please the sight without captivating the affections. If all beauties were to enamour and captivate, the hearts of mankind would be in a continual state of perplexity and confusion—for beautiful objects being infinite, the sentiments they inspire should also be infinite.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
—Cervantes
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Beauty in a modest woman is like fire or a sharp sword at a distance; neither doth the one burn nor the other wound those that come not too near them.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
– Cervantes
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Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observers a promise.
– Cervantes
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Everyone is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse.
– Cerantes
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Fortune always leaves some door open in misfortune.
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Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.
– Cervantes
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
— Cervantes
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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.
—Cervantes
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Honor and virtue are ornaments of the soul, without which the body, though it be really beautiful, ought not to be thought so.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world. ~
Cervantes
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
– Cervantes
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Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
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I never thrust my nose into other men’s porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
– Cervantes
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It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
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Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God’s blessing into the warm sun.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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Let him who is deceived complain.
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Let him to whom faith is broken despair.
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Murder will out.
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Much time is necessary to know people thoroughly.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
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Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
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One man is no more than another, only inasmuch as he does more than another.
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Plain as the nose on a man’s face.[
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She who loves none can make none jealous, and sincerity ought not to pass for disdain.
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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Sometimes we look for one thing and find another.
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Self-praise depreciates.
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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.
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The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
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True love cannot be divided, and must be voluntary and unconstrained.
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The viper deserves no blame for its sting, although it be mortal—because it is the gift of Nature.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Thank you for nothing.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.
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We are sure of nothing in this life.
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Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?
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Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.
– Cervantes
