"The foolish sayings of the rich pass for……" — Miguel de Cervantes
"The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society."
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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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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
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Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like…
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here…
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that…
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Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road…
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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