Cervantes Saavedra Quotes
46 Cervantes Saavedra quotes:
"Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."
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"I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone keep the cobwebs out of my eyes."
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"For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences."
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"Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom"
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"Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum."
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"Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes."
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"The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce"
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"Can one desire too much of a good thing?"
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"God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all hunger . . . the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple with the wise."
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"He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals."
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"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye"
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"All the physicians and authors in the world could not give a clear account of his madness. He is mad in patches, full of lucid intervals."
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"By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom."
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"Faint heart ne'er won fair lady"
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"Too much sanity may be madness"
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"To be prepared is half the victory."
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"Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end"
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"Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
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"There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."
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"I hate to keep things long in case they go mouldy from over-keeping."
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