Top 500 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Senor Sancho Panza must know that we too have enchanters here that are well disposed to us, and tell us what goes on in the world, plainly and distinctly, without subterfuge or deception; and believe me, Sancho, that agile country lass was and is Dulcinea del Toboso, who is as much enchanted as the mother that bore her; and when we least expect it, we shall see her in her own proper form, and then Sancho will be disabused of the error he is under at present.”

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302. “I was born like everyone else, and a man must not live in dependence on anyone except God;.”

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303. “Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.”

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304. “She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.”

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305. “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.”

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306. “It was a hard life, a life of poverty, of incessant struggle, of toil ill paid, of disappointment, but Cervantes carried within himself the antidote to all these evils.”

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307. “All is not gold that glisters.”

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308. “Does the devil possess you? You’re leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.”

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309. “Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.”

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310. “Everything disturbs an absent lover.”

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311. “By God, master,” said Sancho, “the island that I cannot govern with the years I have, I’ll not be able to govern with the years of Methuselah; the difficulty is that the said island keeps its distance somewhere, I know not where; and not that there is any want of head in me to govern it.”

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312. “There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.”

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313. “When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.”

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314. “I believe there’s no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.”

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315. “When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.”

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316. “From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.”

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317. “Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.”

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318. “Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.”

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319. “When a man says, “Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?” there is no answer to be made.”

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320. “Do we know exactly who we are? The more urgently we quest for our authentic selves, the more they tend to recede. The Knight and Sancho, as the great work closes, know exactly who they are, not so much by their adventures as through their marvelous conversations, be they quarrels or exchanges of insights.”

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321. “No man is more than another unless he does more than another.”

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322. “The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.”

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323. “As ill-luck would have it.”

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324. “Let the worst come to the worst.”

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325. “It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.”

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326. “I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.”

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327. “Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.”

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328. “You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.”

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329. “Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.”

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330. “There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.”

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331. “Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.”

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332. “But our depraved age does not deserve to enjoy such a blessing as those ages enjoyed when knights-errant took upon their shoulders the defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the succour of orphans and minors, the chastisement of the proud, and the recompense of the humble.”

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333. “Berganza, I’m not shocked that – since there’s good and bad in all of us – we get the hang of evil in no time.”

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334. “Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.”

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335. “As soon as Don Quixote had read the inscription on the parchment he perceived clearly that it referred to the disenchantment of Dulcinea, and returning hearty thanks to heaven that he.”

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336. “Get the better of yourself – this is the best kind of victory.”

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337. “Wit and humor belong to genius alone.”

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338. “Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.”

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339. “Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.”

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340. “Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.”

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341. “Now, tell me which is the greater deed, raising a dead man or killing a giant?” “The answer is self-evident,” responded Don Quixote. “It is greater to raise a dead man.”

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342. “Trying to stop slanderers’ tongues is like trying to put gates to the open plain.”

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343. “Having cleaned his armor and made a full helmet out of a simple headpiece, and having given a name to his horse and decided on one for himself, he realized that the only thing left for him to do was to find a lady to love; for the knight errant without a lady-love was a tree without leaves or fruit, a body without a soul.”

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344. “For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.”

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345. “A little in one’s own pocket is better than much in another man’s purse.”

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346. “When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.”

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347. “Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.”

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348. “One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.”

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349. “And thus, from too little sleep and too much reading, his brain dried up and he completely lost his judgment.”

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350. “No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.”

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