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Miguel de Cervantes
1547 – 1616 • Spanish • Novelist
61
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Collected Meditations
Showing 61 quotesDrink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.— Miguel de Cervantes
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.— Miguel de Cervantes
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.— Miguel de Cervantes
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.— Miguel de Cervantes
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.— Miguel de Cervantes