Miguel de Cervantes quotes

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses. (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. View quote
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. View quote
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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. View quote
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. View quote
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome. View quote
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Thou hast seen nothing yet. View quote
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Fair and softly goes far. View quote
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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. View quote
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The eyes those silent tongues of love. View quote
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. View quote
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A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket. View quote
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A closed mouth catches no flies. View quote
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. View quote
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He had a face like a blessing. View quote
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. View quote
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That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. View quote
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. View quote
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. View quote
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Good painters imitate nature, bad ones vomit it. (Miguel de Cervantes)
There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little. View quote
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Jests that give pains are no jests. View quote
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Where one door shuts another opens. View quote
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world. View quote
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