Quotes from Novelas ejemplares (Exemplary Novels) — Miguel de Cervantes
1547–1616 Spain
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
Control your tongue, for from it flow the greatest evils of human life.
Time will be gained, and time usually provides a sweet ending for many bitter difficulties.
It is ambition, but a generous ambition, that seeks to improve one's status without harm to others.
Rarely, if ever, can ambition be satisfied with no harm to another.
There die many more of the trustful than of the wary.
Traveling through different countries and communicating with different peoples makes men wise.
I am not suited to the palace, for I have self-respect and do not know how to flatter.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Miguel de Cervantes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.