Miguel de Cervantes Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Miguel de Cervantes – spanischer Schriftsteller (1547–1616), Schöpfer des Romans „Don Quijote“.

Zitat des Tages von Miguel de Cervantes:

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Miguel de Cervantes

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Miguel de Cervantes

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Miguel de Cervantes

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

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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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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

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Man appoints, and God disappoints.

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The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

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That which costs little is less valued.

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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

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

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Fair and softly goes far.

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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.

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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

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

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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

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A person dishonored is worst than dead.

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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

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

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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

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

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Every man is the son of his own works.

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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

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