183 ordspråk av Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can't help saying right off what comes to my tongue.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?
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It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged
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It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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Jests that give pains are no jests
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
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Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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