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

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about deeds, good, good luck

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about deeds, good, good luck

He had a face like a blessing.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about face

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about past

He preaches well that lives well.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about wealth, courage

Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about light, contentment

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about experience, mother, faith

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.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about conversation, vulgarity, bad, rightness

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about impossible, absurd, order

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about praise, things

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about sadness, purity

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about laziness, wish, good, good luck

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about liberty, unforeseen, life, man

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about war, things, love

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about god, man

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about power, contentment

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about children

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes