“It seldom happens that any felicity comes…”: Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

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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Other quotations from Cervantes:

When the severity of the law is to be softened,
let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
– Miguel de Cervantes

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
– Miguel de Cervantes

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool,
and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
– Miguel de Cervantes

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quotation: Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. ( Miguel de Cervantes)

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

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QUOTATION: Miguel de Cervantes

 

Busto de Miguel de Cervantes / Bust of Miguel de Cervantes (Photo credit: Lumiago)

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

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QUOTATION: Miguel de Cervantes

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

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QUOTATION: Miguel de Cervantes

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

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