18 sayings with source references.
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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love: there is a kind of it which pleases only the sight, but does not captivate the affections.Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 100
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The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 164
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Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword: neither doth the one burn nor the other wound him that comes not too near them.Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 295
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There is no remembrance which time doth not obliterate, nor pain which death doth not put an end to.Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 325
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No fathers and mothers think their own children ugly, and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 417
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 565
Read the saying and check its sourcesCada uno es hijo de sus obras.Every man is the son of his deeds.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEn casa llena, presto se guisa la cena.In a well-stocked house, dinner is quickly prepared.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAunque también dicen que el que larga vida vive mucho mal ha de pasar.Though they also say that he who lives a long life must endure much misery.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEl andar a caballo a unos hace caballeros, a otros caballerizos.Riding a horse makes some gentlemen, and others merely grooms.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAsí mata la alegría, súbita como el dolor grande.Thus joy kills, as sudden as great sorrow.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEl vino demasiado ni guarda secreto ni cumple palabra.Too much wine neither keeps a secret nor keeps its word.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLas grandes hazañas, para los grandes hombres están guardadas.Great deeds are reserved for great men.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCuando la cólera sale de madre, no tiene la lengua padre, ayo ni freno que la corrija.When anger is born of a mother, it has no father, no nurse, nor any bridle to restrain it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEl sueño es alivio de las miserias de los que las tienen despiertas.Sleep is a relief for the miseries of those who endure them awake.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEl refrán que no viene a propósito, antes es disparate que sentencia.A proverb that does not apply is more nonsense than wisdom.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAunque la traición aplace, el traidor se aborrece.Though treason may be delayed, the traitor is still loathed.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBien predica quien bien vive.He who lives well preaches well.
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