Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"Spare your breath to cool your porridge."
Miscellaneous quotes
Miscellaneous
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Poet, Novelist
"Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name."
Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"You cannot eat your cake and have your cake."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good."
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"First the grub, then the morals."
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"True eloquence forgoes eloquence."
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"You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new."
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"A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast."
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"It takes all sorts (to make a world"
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"In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?""
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"Appearances are deceiving."
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"It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad."
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"Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth."
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"All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being."
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"We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire."
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"Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms."
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"Whatever come we have to meet it."
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"This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?"
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"Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?"
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"Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit."
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"The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things."
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"Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic."
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"Oh, one world at a time!"
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"We heed no instincts but our own."
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"Never speak more clearly than you think."
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