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There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

Miguel de Cervantes
Death, Teeth, Spite
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.318

Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.

Miguel de Cervantes
Uncles, Niece, Book

Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.

Miguel de Cervantes
Crazy, Lying, Fate
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1976). “The Portable Cervantes”, p.427, Penguin

Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.

Miguel de Cervantes
Race, Play, Theatre
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1954). “Don Quixote”, London ; Montreal : Penguin Books

I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.

Miguel de Cervantes
Eye, Two, Mad

El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.

Miguel de Cervantes
Bread, Break, Company

Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.

Miguel de Cervantes
Knights, Coward
Miguel de Cervantes (2015). “Don Quixote: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.76, 谷月社

Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.

Miguel de Cervantes
Blessed, Hands, Gentleman
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.271, Wordsworth Editions

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

Miguel de Cervantes
Men, House
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.217, Collector's Library

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

Miguel de Cervantes
Sweet, House, God Love
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1907). “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha”

He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.

Miguel de Cervantes
Father, Judging, Mind

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

Miguel de Cervantes
Men, Death Of A Friend, Sorrow
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Gibson Lockhart (1854). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.377

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Miguel de Cervantes
Leadership, Sheep, Society
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1749). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell”, p.55

Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

Miguel de Cervantes
Home, Advice, Looks

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

Miguel de Cervantes
Men, Talking, House

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

Miguel de Cervantes
Get Well, Recovery, Past
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1855). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: With Illus. by Schoff”, p.234

Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.

Miguel de Cervantes
Life, Preacher, Wells
"Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote".

Miracle me no miracles.

Miguel de Cervantes
Miracle
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.184

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

Miguel de Cervantes
Mother, Past, Hatred

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.

Miguel de Cervantes
Mother, Believe, Literature
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.119, Wordsworth Editions

The proof of the pudding is the eating.

Miguel de Cervantes
Pudding, Eating, Proof
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.135

God helps everyone with what is his own.

Miguel de Cervantes
Helping, God Help
"Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, Part II, 26, 1605-1615.

Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.

Miguel de Cervantes
Spring, Evil, Deeds
"Coloquio de los Perros". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, 1613.

One swallow alone does not make a summer.

Miguel de Cervantes
Summer, Doe

Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

Miguel de Cervantes
Change, Self, Names
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart”, p.225

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