Miguel de Cervantes on family
Miguel de Cervantes110 quotes“There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.”
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Where there’s music there can be no evil.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Facts are the enemy of truth.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Where one door shuts another opens.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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