"Truly I was born to be an example……" — Miguel de Cervantes
"Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed."
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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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The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring…
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what…
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
— Albert Camus
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In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
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I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary.
— Unknown Author
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We…
— Brian Day
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
— Lionel Trilling
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The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling…
— Sun Tzu
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With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots,…
— Sun Tzu
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The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls…
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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international…
— J. William Fulbright
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