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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 Cervantes

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Miguel De Cervantes

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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.

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Does The Devil Possess You? You're Leaping Over The Hedge Before You Come At The Stile.

A Wise Man Does Not Trust All His Eggs To One Basket.

Once A Woman Parts With Her Virtue, She Loses The Esteem Even Of The Man Whose Vows And Tears Won Her To Abandon It.

Other Men's Pains Are Easily Borne.

There's No Sauce In The World Like Hunger.

There Is No Greater Folly In The World Than For A Man To Despair.

The Wise Hand Does Not All The Tongue Dictates.

Be Brief, For No Talk Can Please When Too Long. Being Prepared Is Half The Victory.

Three Things Too Much, And Three Too Little Are Pernicious To Man; To Speak Much, And Know Little; To Spend Much, And Have Little; To Presume Much, And Be Worth Little.

The Eyes Those Silent Tongues Of Love.

She Fights And Vanquishes In Me, And I Live And Breathe In Her, And I Have Life And Being.

As Ill-luck Would Have It.

It Is A True Saying That A Man Must Eat A Peck Of Salt With His Friend Before He Knows Him.

She Wanted, With Her Fickleness, To Make My Destruction Constant; I Want, By Trying To Destroy Myself, To Satisfy Her Desire.

Roque...lined His Men Up And Had Them Produce All The Clothing, Jewels, Money, And Other Objects That They Had Stolen Since The Last Time They Had Divided The Spoils. Having Made A Hasty Appraisal And Reduced To Terms Of Money Those Items That Could Not Be Divided, He Split The Whole Into Shares With Such Equity And Exactitude That In Not A Single Instance Did He Go Beyond Or Fall Short Of A Strict Distributive Justice. They Were All Well Satisfied With The Payment Received, Indeed They Were Quite Well Pleased; And Roque Then Turned To Don Quixote.

One Shouldn't Talk Of Halters In The Hanged Man's House.

Until Death It Is All Life.

If Thou Takest Virtue For The Rule Of Life, And Valuest Thyself Upon Acting In All Things Comfortably Thereto, Thou Wilt Have No Cause To Envy Lords And Princes; For Blood Is Inherited, But Virtue Is Common Property, And May Be Acquired By All; It Has, Moreover, An Intrinsic Worth, Which Blood Has Not.

Many Count Their Chickens Before They Are Hatched; And Where They Expect Bacon, Meet With Broken Bones.

Drink Moderately, For Drunkeness Neither Keeps A Secret, Nor Observes A Promise.

One Of The Effects Of Fear Is To Disturb The Senses And Cause Things To Appear Other Than What They Are.

Wit And Humor Belong To Genius Alone.

Though Gods Attributes Are Equal, Yet His Mercy Is More Attractive And Pleasing In Our Eyes Than His Justice.

I Do Not Deny That What Happened To Us Is A Thing Worth Laughing At. But It Is Not Worth Telling, For Not Everyone Is Sufficiently Intelligent To Be Able To See Things From The Right Point Of View.

Modesty, Tis A Virtue Not Often Found Among Poets, For Almost Every One Of Them Thinks Himself The Greatest In The World.

There Is Remedy For All Things Except Death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

The Absent Feel And Fear Every Ill.

It Is One Thing To Praise Discipline, And Another To Submit To It.

There Is A Time For Some Things, And A Time For All Things; A Time For Great Things, And A Time For Small Things.

The Stomach Carries The Heart, And Not The Heart The Stomach.

Where One Door Shuts Another Opens.

Another Opportunity

Pray, Look Better, Sir... Those Things Yonder Are No Giants, But Windmills.

What A Man Has, So Much He Is Sure Of.

'tis The Maddest Trick A Man Can Ever Play In His Whole Life, To Let His Breath Sneak Out Of His Body Without Any More Ado, And Without So Much As A Rap O'er The Pate, Or A Kick Of The Guts; To Go Out Like The Snuff Of A Farthing Candle, And Die Merely Of The Mulligrubs, Or The Sullens.

For Let Us Women Be Never So Ill-favored, I Imagine That We Are Always Delighted To Hear Ourselves Called Handsome.

Behind The Cross Is The Devil.

The Guts Carry The Feet, Not The Feet The Guts.

He That Gives Quickly Gives Twice.

There Is Also This Benefit In Brag, That The Speaker Is Unconsciously Expressing His Own Ideal. Humor Him By All Means, Draw It All Out, And Hold Him To It.

Let Us Forget And Forgive Injuries.

Forgive And Forget

In Order To Attain The Impossible, One Must Attempt The Absurd.

Impossible Things

Sancho Panza By Name Is My Own Self, If I Was Not Changed In My Cradle.

God Who Sends The Wound Sends The Medicine.

Journey Over All The Universe In A Map, Without The Expense And Fatigue Of Traveling, Without Suffering The Inconveniences Of Heat, Cold, Hunger, And Thirst.

Too Much Sanity May Be Madness!

Get The Better Of Yourself - This Is The Best Kind Of Victory.

One Of The Most Considerable Advantages The Great Have Over Their Inferiors Is To Have Servants As Good As Themselves.

When The Head Aches, All The Members Partake Of The Pain.

All Kinds Of Beauty Do Not Inspire Love; There Is A Kind Which Only Pleases The Sight, But Does Not Captivate The Affections.

A Little In One's Own Pocket Is Better Than Much In Another Man's Purse.

A Good Name Is Better Than Bags Of Gold.

You Cannot Eat Your Cake And Have Your Cake.

Have Your Cake And Eat It Too

I Drink When I Have Occasion, And Sometimes When I Have No Occasion.

In Short, Virtue Cannot Live Where Envy Reigns, Nor Liberality Subsist With Niggardliness.

Among The Attributes Of God, Although They Are Equal, Mercy Shines With Even More Brilliance Than Justice.

For Hope Is Always Born At The Same Time As Love.

Sing Away Sorrow, Cast Away Care.

Oh Senor" Said The Niece. "your Grace Should Send Them To Be Burned (books), Just Like All The Rest, Because It's Very Likely That My Dear Uncle, Having Been Cured Of The Chivalric Disease, Will Read These And Want To Become A Shepherd And Wander Through The Woods And Meadows Singing And Playing And, What Would Be Even Worse, Become A Poet, And That, They Say, Is An Incurable And Contagious Disease.

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.

Death Of A Friend

Love Is A Power Too Strong To Be Overcome By Anything But Flight.

Many Littles Make A Much.

'tis Said Of Love That It Sometimes Goes, Sometimes Flies; Runs With One, Walks Gravely With Another; Turns A Third Into Ice, And Sets A Fourth In A Flame: It Wounds One, Another It Kills: Like Lightning It Begins And Ends In The Same Moment: It Makes That Fort Yield At Night Which It Besieged But In The Morning; For There Is No Force Able To Resist It.

The Worst Reconciliation Is Better Than The Best Divorce.

Treason Pleases, But Not The Traitor.

The Darts Of Love Are Blunted By Maiden Modesty.

There Were No Embraces, Because Where There Is Great Love There Is Often Little Display Of It.

When A Man Says, "get Out Of My House! What Would You Have With My Wife?" There Is No Answer To Be Made.

There Were But Two Families In The World, Have-much And Have-little.

There's No Love Lost Between Us.

It Is The Part Of A Wise Man To Keep Himself Today For Tomorrow, And Not To Venture All His Eggs In One Basket.

Where There's Music There Can Be No Evil.

From Reading Too Much, And Sleeping Too Little, His Brain Dried Up On Him And He Lost His Judgment.

God Exalts The Man Who Humbles Himself.

Wine Taken In Moderation Never Does Any Harm.

Comparisons Are Odious.

A Man Without Honor Is Worse Than Dead.

Virtue Is The Truest Nobility.

Whether The Pitcher Hits The Stone Or The Stone Hits The Pitcher, It Goes Ill With The Pitcher.

Lovers Are Commonly Industrious To Make Themselves Uneasy.

My Memory Is So Bad That Many Times I Forget My Own Name.

There Is No Book So Bad...that It Does Not Have Something Good In It.

Spanish And English

Where Envy Reigns Virtue Can't Exist, And Generosity Doesn't Go With Meanness.

It's Up To Brave Hearts, Sir, To Be Patient When Things Are Going Badly, As Well As Being Happy When They're Going Well ... For I've Heard That What They Call Fortune Is A Flighty Woman Who Drinks Too Much, And, What's More, She's Blind, So She Can't See What She's Doing, And She Doesn't Know Who She's Knocking Over Or Who She's Raising Up.

I Do Not Believe That The Good Lord Plays Dice.

Since We Have A Good Loaf, Let Us Not Look For Cheesecakes.

A Person Dishonored Is Worst Than Dead.

There Are Men That Will Make You Books, And Turn Them Loose Into The World, With As Much Dispatch As They Would Do A Dish Of Fritters.

Cunning Cheats Itself Wholly, And Other People Partially.

He Had A Face Like A Blessing.

The Most Perceptive Character In A Play Is The Fool, Because The Man Who Wishes To Seem Simple Cannot Possibly Be A Simpleton.

Think Before Thou Speakest.

He Who Gives Early Gives Twice.

All The Vices, Sancho, Bring Some Kind Of Pleasure With Them; But Envy Brings Nothing But Irritation, Bitterness, And Rage.

Fair And Softly Goes Far.

He Who Loses Wealth Loses Much; He Who Loses A Friend Loses More; But He That Loses His Courage Loses All.

Bien Predica Quien Bien Vive. He Preaches Well Who Lives Well.

We Must Not Stand Upon Trifles.

Everything Disturbs An Absent Lover.

But Do Not Give It To A Lawyer's Clerk To Write, For They Use A Legal Hand That Satan Himself Will Not Understand.

True Valor Lies In The Middle Between Cowardice And Rashness.

I Have Always Heard, Sancho, That Doing Good To Base Fellows Is Like Throwing Water Into The Sea.

A Father May Have A Child Who Is Ugly And Lacking In All The Graces, And The Love He Feels For Him Puts A Blindfold Over His Eyes So That He Does Not See His Defects But Considers Them Signs Of Charm And Intelligence And Recounts Them To His Friends As If They Were Clever And Witty.

It Is Good To Live And Learn.

Delay Always Heeds Danger.

For The Army Is A School In Which The Miser Becomes Generous, And The Generous Prodigal; Miserly Soldiers Are Like Monsters, But Very Rarely Seen.

Arms Are My Ornaments, Warfare My Repose.

The Gratification Of Wealth Is Not Found In Mere Possession Or In Lavish Expenditure, But In Its Wise Application.

The Woman Who Is Resolved To Be Respected Can Make Herself Be So Even Amidst An Army Of Soldiers.

Now, Blessings Light On Him That First Invented Sleep!Ê It Covers A Man All Over, Thoughts And All, Like A Cloak; It Is Meat For The Hungry, Drink For The Thirsty, Heat For The Cold, And Cold For The Hot.Ê It Is The Current Coin That Purchases All The Pleasures Of The World Cheap, And The Balance That Sets The King And The Shepherd, The Fool And The Wise Man, Even.

What Is Bought Is Cheaper Than A Gift.

Fear Has Many Eyes And Can See Things Underground.

Here Lies A Gentleman Bold Who Was So Very Brave He Went To Lengths Untold, And On The Brink Of The Grave Death Had On Him No Hold. By The World He Set Small Store-- He Frightened It To The Core-- Yet Somehow, By Fate's Plan, Though He'd Lived A Crazy Man, When He Died He Was Sane Once More.

Tis A Dainty Thing To Command, Though 'twere But A Flock Of Sheep.

That Which Costs Little Is Less Valued.

Dine On Little, And Sup On Less.

The Very Remembrance Of My Former Misfortune Proves A New One To Me.

Great Expectations Are Better Than A Poor Possession.

Great Expectations

Inasmuch As Ill-deeds Spring Up As A Spontaneous Crop, They Are Easy To Learn.

The Treason Pleases, But The Traitors Are Odious.

When Life Itself Seems Lunatic, Who Knows Where Madness Lies? Perhaps To Be Too Practical May Be Madness. To Surrender Dreams, This May Be Madness ...maddest Of All Is To See Life As It Is And Not As It Should Be.

Whom God Loves, His House Is Sweet To Him.

You Are A King By Your Own Fireside, As Much As Any Monarch In His Throne.

For If He Like A Madman Lived; At Least He Like A Wise One Died.

The Wounds Received In Battle Bestow Honor, They Do Not Take It Away.

There Is No Remembrance Which Time Does Not Obliterate, Nor Pain Which Death Does Not Terminate.

Do You See Over Yonder, Friend Sancho, Thirty Or Forty Hulking Giants? I Intend To Do Battle With Them And Slay Them.

There Are Only Two Families In The World, My Old Grandmother Used To Say, The Haves And The Have-nots.

Honesty's The Best Policy.

Proverbs Are Short Sentences Drawn From Long Experience.

Tis Ill Talking Of Halters In The House Of A Man That Was Hanged.

Every Tooth In A Man's Head Is More Valuable Than A Diamond.

With Life Many Things Are Remedied.

When You Are At Rome, Do As You See.

A Private Sin Is Not So Prejudicial In This World, As A Public Indecency.

All Persons Are Not Discreet Enough To Know How To Take Things By The Right Handle.

The Reputation Of A Woman May Also Be Compared To A Mirror Of Crystal, Shining And Bright, But Liable To Be Sullied By Every Breath That Comes Near It.

Make It Thy Business To Know Thyself, Which Is The Most Difficult Lesson In The World. Yet From This Lesson Thou Will Learn To Avoid The Frog's Foolish Ambition Of Swelling To Rival The Bigness Of The Ox.

Love And War Are The Same Thing, And Stratagems And Policy Are As Allowable In The One As In The Other.

Blessed Be Those Happy Ages That Were Strangers To The Dreadful Fury Of These Devilish Instruments Of Artillery, Whose Inventor I Am Satisfied Is Now In Hell, Receiving The Reward Of His Cursed Invention, Which Is The Cause That Very Often A Cowardly Base Hand Takes Away The Life Of The Bravest Gentleman.

I Want You To See Me Naked And Performing One Or Two Dozen Mad Acts, Which Will Take Me Less Than Half An Hour, Because If You Have Seen Them With Your Own Eyes, You Can Safely Swear To Any Others You Might Wish To Add.

When The Severity Of The Law Is To Be Softened, Let Pity, Not Bribes, Be The Motive.

Take My Advice And Live For A Long, Long Time. Because The Maddest Thing A Man Can Do Is This Life Is To Let Himself Die.

When Good Luck Knocks At The Door, Let Him In And Keep Him There.

Experience Is The Universal Mother Of Sciences.

Miracle Me No Miracles.

That's The Nature Of Women, Not To Love When We Love Them, And To Love When We Love Them Not.

He Is Mad Past Recovery, But Yet He Has Lucid Intervals.

We Ought To Love Our Maker For His Own Sake, Without Either Hope Of Good Or Fear Of Pain.

All Of That Is True,’ Responded Don Quixote, ‘but We Cannot All Be Friars, And God Brings His Children To Heaven By Many Paths: Chivalry Is A Religion, And There Are Sainted Knights In Glory.’ Yes,’ Responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve Heard That There Are More Friars In Heaven Than Knights Errant.’ That Is True,’ Responded Don Quixote, ‘because The Number Of Religious Is Greater Than The Number Of Knights.’ There Are Many Who Are Errant,’ Said Sancho. Many,’ Responded Don Quixote, ‘but Few Who Deserve To Be Called Knights.

I Never Thrust My Nose Into Other Men's Porridge. It Is No Bread And Butter Of Mine; Every Man For Himself, And God For Us All.

Wine In Excess Keeps Neither Secrets Nor Promises.

When We Leave This World, And Are Laid In The Earth, The Prince Walks As Narrow A Path As The Day-laborer.

Let Every Man Mind His Own Business.

Make Yourself Honey And The Flies Will Devour You.

Be Not Under The Dominion Of Thine Own Will; It Is The Vice Of The Ignorant, Who Vainly Presume On Their Own Understanding.

That Which We Are Capable Of Feeling, We Are Capable Of Saying.

Facts Are The Enemy Of Truth.

History Is In A Manner A Sacred Thing, So Far As It Contains Truth; For Where Truth Is, The Supreme Father Of It May Also Be Said To Be, At Least, Inasmuch As Concerns Truth.

We Are All As God Made Us And Frequently Much Worse.

There Are Many Hours And Minutes Between Now And Tomorrowand In Any One Of Them-even In A Minute,the House Falls

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.

He Who Has The Judge For His Father Goes Into Court With An Easy Mind.

He Who's Never Loved Cannot Be Good.

I Had Rather Munch A Crust Of Brown Bread And An Onion In A Corner, Without Any More Ado, Or Ceremony, Than Feed Upon Turkey At Another Man's Table.

Thou Camest Out Of Thy Mother's Belly Without Government, Thou Hast Liv'd Hitherto Without Government, And Thou Mayst Be Carried To Thy Long Home Without Government, When It Shall Please The Lord. How Many People In This World Live Without Government, Yet Do Well Enough, And Are Well Look'd Upon?

Nothing Costs Less Nor Is Cheaper Than Compliments Of Civility.

Leap Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Fire.

When God Sends The Dawn, He Sends It For All.

If You Are Ambitious Of Climbing Up To The Difficult, And In A Manner Inaccessible, Summit Of The Temple Of Fame, Your Surest Way Is To Leave On One Hand The Narrow Path Of Poetry, And Follow The Narrower Track Of Knight-errantry, Which In A Trice May Raise You To An Imperial Throne.

Old, That's An Affront No Woman Can Well Bear.

Whoever Is Ignorant Is Vulgar.

Soul Of Fibre And Heart Of Oak.

Forewarned, Forearmed; To Be Prepared Is Half The Victory.

An Honest Man's Word Is As Good As His Bond.

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.

Time Ripens All Things; No Man Is Born Wise.

Every Man Was Not Born With A Silver Spoon In His Mouth.

Give The Devil His Due.

I Would Have Nobody To Control Me; I Would Be Absolute: And Who But I? Now, He That Is Absolute Can Do What He Likes; He That Can Do What He Likes Can Take His Pleasure; He That Can Take His Pleasure Can Be Content; And He That Can Be Content Has No More To Desire. So The Matter 's Over; And Come What Will Come, I Am Satisfied.

Translation From One Language To Another Is Like Viewing A Piece Of Tapestry On The Wrong Side Where Though The Figures Are Distinguishable Yet There Are So Many Ends And Threads That The Beauty And Exactness Of The Work Is Obscured.

Little Said Is Soon Amended.

Good Painter Imitates Nature, Bad Ones Spews It Up.

It Requires A Long Time To Know Anyone.

A Blot In Thy Escutcheon To All Futurity.

My Thoughts Ran A Wool-gathering.

A Silly Remark Can Be Made In Latin As Well As In Spanish.

And Thus Being Totally Preoccupied, He Rode So Slowly That The Sun Was Soon Glowing With Such Intense Heat That It Would Have Melted His Brains, If He'd Had Any.

One Who Has Not Only The Four S's, Which Are Required In Every Good Lover, But Even The Whole Alphabet; As For Example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; The X Indeed, Is Too Harsh A Letter To Agree With Him, But He Is Young And Zealous.

Thou Art A Cat, And A Rat, And A Coward.

Let Me Leap Out Of The Frying-pan Into The Fire; Or, Out Of God's Blessing Into The Warm Sun.

Mere Flimflam Stories, And Nothing But Shams And Lies.

The Man Who Is Prepared Has His Battle Half Fought.

All I Know Is That So Long I Am Asleep I Am Rid Of All Fears And Hopes And Toils And Glory, And Long Live The Man Who Invented Sleep, The Cloak That Covers All Human Thirst.

Liberty Is One Of The Most Precious Gifts Which Heaven Has Bestowed On Man; With It We Cannot Compare The Treasures Which The Earth Contains Or The Sea Conceals; For Liberty, As For Honor, We Can And Ought To Risk Our Lives; And, On For The Other Hand, Captivity Is The Greatest Evil That Can Befall Man.

Valor Lies Just Halfway Between Rashness And Cowardice.

The Wicked Are Always Ungrateful.

All Women Are Good - Good For Nothing, Or Good For Something.

The Foolish Sayings Of The Rich Pass For Wise Saws In Society.

When Life Itself Seems Lunatic, Who Knows Where Madness Lies?

No Man Is More Than Another Unless He Does More Than Another.

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