Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.


Miguel de Unamuno

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We all have a voice. Some a whisper, some a roar.

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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him ...
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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
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Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
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To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant
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The vanity of the passing world and love are the two fundamental and heart-penetrating notes of true...
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be
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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
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Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or f...
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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El que tiene fe en sí mismo no necesita que los demás crean en él.
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Consciousness is a disease
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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not ...
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
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Life is doubt,
And faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life
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It can be anything that gives them a sense of control, ... A lot of performance is mind over matter,...
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Over there, people want to believe in you, if you can prove to them that you totally believe in you.
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People will believe most anything that is whispered to another.
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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
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If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.
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You can do anything you need if you just believe in it!
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You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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If someone wants to be in your world then they will be anything you want them to in it.
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Nine out of ten males will believe anything, especially if it confirms their virility
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Don't believe anything. If it makes sense then you already understand it.
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If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.
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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas
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Cásate con la mujer que te quiera, aunque no la quieras tú. Es mejor casarte para que le conquiste...
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be
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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
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Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or f...
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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El que tiene fe en sí mismo no necesita que los demás crean en él.
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Consciousness is a disease
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
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Life is doubt,
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Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulen...
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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humo...
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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To be prepared is half the victory.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Patience and shuffle the cards.
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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture ...
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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays t...
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
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True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage lose...
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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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...
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his bod...
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death ...
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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Te...
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revi...
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear,...
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without governmen...
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than hi...
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than ju...
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compar...
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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Eat not garlic nor onions, lest they find out thy boorish origin by the smell; walk slowly and speak...
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Fair and softly goes far.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this...
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts a...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these boo...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
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That which costs little is less valued.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
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He preaches well that lives well.
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My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, There were but two families in the world, have-much and have...
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd le...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrous...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Miracle me no miracles.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and natural...
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He had a face like a blessing.
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.
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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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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than...
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail o...
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Absence -- that common cure of love.
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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
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Faint heart never won fair lady.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as g...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Absence, that common cure of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with anot...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Virtue is the truest nobility.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unre...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, di...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging the...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
MIGUEL DE UNANIMO
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Facts are the enemy of truth.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Short sentences drawn from long experiences.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by h...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy tha...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wis...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Every man is the son of his own works.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the oth...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphab...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
I've never worked with the Java community.
MIGUEL DE ICAZA
I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your plat...
MIGUEL DE ICAZA
Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.
MIGUEL DE ICAZA
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and the goal of a good intention was never reached through ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES