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Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

– “A closed mouth catches no flies.”

– “A person dishonored is worst than dead.”

– “There is a time for some things and a time for all things; a time for great things and a time for small things.”

– “A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.”

– “A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”

– “Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune.”

– “Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.”

– “Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”

– “Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”

– “Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.”

– “Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.”

– “Every man is the son of his own works.”

– “Fair and softly goes far.”

– “Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”

– “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.”

– “Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.”

– “From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.”

– “God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”

– “Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.”

– “He had a face like a blessing.”

– “He preaches well that lives well.”