"Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd."

Cervantes, Miguel De on epitaphs   

"He had a face like a blessing."

Cervantes, Miguel De on faces   

"The eyes those silent tongues of love."

Cervantes, Miguel De on faces
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"If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne."

Cervantes, Miguel De on fame
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"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."

Cervantes, Miguel De on fear   

"He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals."

Cervantes, Miguel De on fools and foolishness
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"Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man."

Cervantes, Miguel De on freedom   

"A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him."

Cervantes, Miguel De on friends and friendship   

"By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never."

Cervantes, Miguel De on the future   

"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."

Cervantes, Miguel De on aid and assistance
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"Man appoints, and God disappoints."

Cervantes, Miguel De on god   

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"Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice."

Cervantes, Miguel De on god   

"Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice."

Cervantes, Miguel De on god   

"Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?"

Cervantes, Miguel De on government   

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

Cervantes, Miguel De on happiness   

"'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens."

Cervantes, Miguel De on death   

"Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk."

Cervantes, Miguel De on death   

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

Cervantes, Miguel De on wisdom   

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

Cervantes, Miguel De on work   

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"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works."

Cervantes, Miguel De on work   

"Absence -- that common cure of love."

Cervantes, Miguel De on absence
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"Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

Cervantes, Miguel De on company   

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

Cervantes, Miguel De on courage
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"Faint heart never won fair lady."

Cervantes, Miguel De on war
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"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."

Cervantes, Miguel De on creation   

"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."

Cervantes, Miguel De on anger
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"Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other."

Cervantes, Miguel De on death   

"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea."

Cervantes, Miguel De on charity   

"One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house."

Cervantes, Miguel De on tact and tactfulness   

"'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged."

Cervantes, Miguel De on tact and tactfulness   

"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water."

Cervantes, Miguel De on truth   

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

Cervantes, Miguel De on truth
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"True valor lies between cowardice and rashness."

Cervantes, Miguel De on valor
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"That which costs little is less valued."

Cervantes, Miguel De on value   

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

Cervantes, Miguel De on vanity
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"The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application."

Cervantes, Miguel De on wealth   

"God bears with the wicked, but not forever."

Cervantes, Miguel De on wickedness   

"No man is more than another unless he does more than another."

Cervantes, Miguel De on service
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"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency."

Cervantes, Miguel De on sin   

"By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom."

Cervantes, Miguel De on slang