"True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness."
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Miguel de Cervantes quotes (page 9 of 22)
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"God bears with the wicked, but not forever."
"A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause"
"The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton."
"He preaches well that lives well"
"Good Christians should never avenge injuries."
"There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends."
"With life many things are remedied."
"The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity."
"The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken."
"Believe there are no limits but the sky."
"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works."
"The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application."
"A good name is better than bags of gold."
"There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it."
"That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying."
"It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons."
"Man have to have friends even in hell."
"Think before thou speakest."
"You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into."