Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

• Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Company

• Pray look better, Sir… those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Look

• Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Comfort

• That which costs little is less valued.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Little

• From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reading, Brain, Judgment, Little

• Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Laziness

• Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Sometimes, Man

• The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

   

   

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Own, Man

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learning, Time, Weakness, Man

• Man appoints, and God disappoints.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Topics in God

  Tags in Man

• ‘Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in House, Man

• Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Hurt

• It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happen, Sorrow

• Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Broken

• A person dishonored is worst than dead.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dead, Person

• The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Possession, Wealth

• There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Fortune

• He had a face like a blessing.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Sing, Blessing

• God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Topics in God

  Tags in Forever

• 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.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proverb, Forever

Miguel de Cervantes (86)

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

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