"Love and war are the same thing, and……" — Miguel de Cervantes
"Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."
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Miguel de Cervantes
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314 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes has 314 quotes on this site.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as…
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any…
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the…
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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars;…
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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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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses…
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
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No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last…
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During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of…
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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by…
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To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were…
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Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't…
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