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Don Quixote

Book by Miguel de Cervantes · 50 quotes · Men, Literature, Cervantes

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“'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.”

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“Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.”

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“Se as minhas feridas não resplandecem aos olhos de quem as mira, são estimadas, pelo menos, por aqueles que sabem onde se ganharam; que o soldado melhor parece morto na batalha, do que livre na fuga: e tanto sinto isto que digo, que, se agora me propusessem e facilitassem um impossível, antes quisera ter estado naquela peleja prodigiosa, do que são das minhas feridas sem lá me ter achado. As cicatrizes que o soldado ostenta no rosto e no peito são estrelas que guiam os outros ao céu da honra, e ao desejar justo louvor; e convém advertir que se não escreve com as cãs, mas sim com o entendimento, que costuma aperfeiçoar-se com os anos.”

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