"Make yourself honey and the flies will devour…" — Miguel de Cervantes
"Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you."
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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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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one…
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and…
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The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure…
— John Burroughs
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In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like…
— Pope Francis
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I love books where you can't get out of bed. You want to consume them in one sitting, devour them.…
— Rachel McAdams
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Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism…
— Mark Carney
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Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs,…
— Jim Jarmusch
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I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by…
— William J. Clinton
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Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting…
— Saint Peter
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Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair;…
— Thomas Nashe
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