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Information About Don Quixote
Name of Book : Don Quixote de la Mancha
Original Title : El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha
Author : Miguel de Cervantes
Genre : Novel
Pages : 863
Language :Spanish
Country : Spain
Publication date : Part 1 : 1605 | Part 2 : 1615
Publisher : Francisco de Robles
Quotes From Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
1. “ Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
2. “ Facts are the enemy of truth. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
3. “ Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
4. “ He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more, but he that loses his courage loses all. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
5. “ The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
6. “ A good name is better than bags of gold. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
7. “ The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
8. “ A closed mouth catches no flies. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
9. “ The pen is the tongue of the mind. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
10. “ Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
11. “ 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. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
12. “ Great persons are able to do great kindnesses. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
13. “ Where envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
14. “ One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
15. “ God exalts the man who humbles himself. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
16. “ Take away the cause, and the effect ceases. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
17. “ Believe there are no limits but the sky. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
18. “ Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
19. “ The road to the inn is much better than the stay. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
20. “ There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
21. “ In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
22. “ When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
23. “ I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
24. “ Seek for good, but expect evil. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
25. “ Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
26. “ Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
27. “ Those who have been told the truth should not be taken for those who have been scorned. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
28. “ The fool knows more in his own house than the wise man in someone else’s. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
29. “ How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others? ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
30. “ Let us make hay while the sun shines. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
31. “ Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
32. “ I think and believe that I’m enchanted, and this satisfies my conscience, for it would weigh heavily upon me, if I believed I wasn’t enchanted and had let myself be locked up in this crate like a lazy coward. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
33. “ 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. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
34. “ Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
35. “ Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
36. “ Love not what you are but only what you may become. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
37. “ The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
38. “ One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
39. “ What I can tell your grace is that it deals with truths, and they are truths so appealing and elegant that no lies can equal them. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes
40. “ I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship’s days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow. ”
— Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes