183 ordspråk av Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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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Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end
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Love not what you are, but what you may become.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Mind your own business
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My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''there were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
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Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.
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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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Oh, sir, sir, there are more tricks done in the village than make a noise - saving her ladyship's presence.
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Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it
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One man is no more than another if he does no more than another
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