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Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

1547-1616

 

 
 

  • "Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."

  • "Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water."

  • "Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."

  • "To be prepared is half the victory."

  • "Time ripens all things; no man is born wise."

  • "There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."

  • "There's no taking trout with dry breeches."

  • "The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity."

  • "That which costs little is less valued."

  • "Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."

  • "It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow."

  • "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."

  • "He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all."

  • "Every man is the son of his own works."

  • "Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."

  • "Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."


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