Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

• Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

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• What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

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• There are but two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say—the Haves and the Havenots.

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• There’s a remedy for everything except death.

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• With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.

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• Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

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• The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.

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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

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  Tags in Good, Best, Fortune

• I don’t see what my arse has to do with enchantings!

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• Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

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  Tags in Mind, Books, Reading

• Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies.

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• Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

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• Facts are the enemy of truth

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  Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

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• Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.

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• There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

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• Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

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• Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

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• One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

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  Tags in World, Better, Man, Courage

• In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

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  Tags in Absurd, Impossible, Order

Miguel de Cervantes (86)

Birth:	29th September, 1547
Death:	22nd April, 1616
Nationality:	Spanish
Profession:	Novelist, Poet, Soldier, Playwriter

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