Life Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about life.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Be brief in your reasoning, for none is enjoyable if it is long.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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When one door closes, another one opens.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Trust in time, which often gives sweet outcomes to many bitter difficulties.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Since you are not experienced in the ways of the world, everything that poses some difficulty seems impossible to you.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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It seems to me, Sancho, that there is no proverb that is not true, because they are all sentences drawn from the same experience, the mother of all sciences.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Each person is as God made them, and often even worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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The desired good becomes more exhausting the closer the hope of possessing it is.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Where favor and gifts intervene, risks are smoothed and difficulties are undone.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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There is nothing more futile and even wasted than telling the wretched their misfortunes to someone who is filled with happiness.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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What the heavens have ordained to happen, no human diligence or wisdom can prevent it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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There is no road that does not end, unless it is opposed by laziness and idleness.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

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Three quarters of madness are nothing but follies.