Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Miguel de Cervantes (77)

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

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

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

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

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

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• That which costs little is less valued.

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

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

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

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

   

   

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• 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.

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• Man appoints, and God disappoints.

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

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