“Virtue is the truest nobility.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“Thou cam’st out of thy mother’s belly without government, thou hast liv’d hitherto without government, and thou may’st be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look’d upon?”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than aclown; all’s fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he’s no mower that takes a nap at noon- day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he’s neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach’d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and tho’ you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men’s lives, which he guggles down like mother’s milk.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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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.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“‘Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o’er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“Faint heart never won fair lady.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“Absence — that common cure of love.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“Every man is the son of his own works.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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“True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.”
Miguel De Cervantes
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