Spanish - Novelist | September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
TruthWaterBrokenOilAlwaysMay
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
SorrowPureHappensSeldomSomeAny
He preaches well that lives well.
WellHeLivesPreaches
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
GodWickedForeverBears
Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
SheepCommandFlockThoughThing
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
WarNothingFortuneSubject
Virtue is the truest nobility.
VirtueNobilityTruest
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
TimeDeathWillThingsWellSure
Man appoints, and God disappoints.
GodMan
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
ComfortMiserableOnlyPartnersWoes
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
WorldSinPublicPrivate
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
GoodGreatOverMostThemselves
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