Miguel De Cervantes /Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra/ quotes Born: 09/29/1547 Died: 04/23/1616 Country: spain

• Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. (Miguel De Cervantes)
• Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. (Miguel De Cervantes)
• Faint heart never won fair lady. (Miguel De Cervantes) [lady]
• Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. (Miguel De Cervantes)
• Take away the cause, and the effect ceases. (Miguel De Cervantes) [take]
• I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. (Miguel De Cervantes) [water]
• There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. (Miguel De Cervantes)
• Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. (Miguel De Cervantes)
• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. (Miguel De Cervantes) [mother/fortune/idleness]
• A person dishonored is worst than dead. (Miguel De Cervantes)
• For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future. (Miguel De Cervantes) [interest/fear/hatred/path]
• By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never. (Miguel De Cervantes)
• A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him. (Miguel De Cervantes)
• Man appoints, and God disappoints. (Miguel De Cervantes) [god]
• You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. (Miguel De Cervantes) [king]
• He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals. (Miguel De Cervantes) [past]
• He had a face like a blessing. (Miguel De Cervantes) [face]
• 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) [gifts/evil]
• Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. (Miguel De Cervantes) [fear/eyes]
• The eyes those silent tongues of love. (Miguel De Cervantes) [eyes/love]
• It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. (Miguel De Cervantes) [sorrow]
• 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) [time/weakness/stomach]
• Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. (Miguel De Cervantes) [danger/design]
• Fair and softly goes far. (Miguel De Cervantes)
• She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being. (Miguel De Cervantes) [life/being]
• There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends. (Miguel De Cervantes) [strange/charm/thoughts/sorrow]
• Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. (Miguel De Cervantes) [god]
• Jests that give pains are no jests. (Miguel De Cervantes) [give]
• Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. (Miguel De Cervantes) [love/war/thing]
• Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. (Miguel De Cervantes) [look]
• Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. (Miguel De Cervantes) [wish]

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