“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.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Category: learning
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“Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Category: war
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“Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Category: truth
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“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Category: power
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“He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
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“Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Category: design
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“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
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“God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
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“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Category: truth
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“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.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Category: humor
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“There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Category: war
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