Time Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

10 Time quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

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Cervantes’ ten brief passages about time carry his classic wit and narrative flair. They’re a compact taste of his literary perspective on the passage of days.

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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.

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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

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It requires a long time to know anyone.

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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor…

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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

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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…

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“So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good…

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“experienced in the things of the world, everything that has some difficulty about it seems to thee impossible; but time will pass,…

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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the…

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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to…

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Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.

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He had a face like a blessing.

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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

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“Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”

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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.

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One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.

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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

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I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their…

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

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