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From Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
- From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
- The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
- Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
- I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
- The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
- There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
- For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the…
- I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of…
- Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid…
- Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the…
- Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there…
- Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made…
- A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
- It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as…
- I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is…
- Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
- Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from…
- Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces…
- The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to…
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