A good repentance is the best medicine for diseases of the soul.
Use itGS4: genuine repentance heals moral failings; reformative ethics.
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Miguel de Cervantes quotes for UPSC
11 sourced quotes by Miguel de Cervantes on time & change, ethics & morality, integrity & honesty, education & knowledge, nation, unity & diversity, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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I am not suited to the palace, for I have self-respect and do not know how to flatter.
Use itGS4: self-respect over flattery; civil servant who refuses sycophancy.
He who reads much and walks much sees much and knows much.
Use itEssay on education: reading and travel together build knowledge.
Traveling through different countries and communicating with different peoples makes men wise.
Use itEssay on diversity: travel and cross-cultural exchange make people wise.
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
Use itEssay on literature: writing mirrors the writer's thoughts.
In great dangers, the small hope of overcoming them draws desperate strength from the spirit.
Use itLife: even small hope gives strength in great danger.
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
Use itLife: dignity at home equals a monarch's; contentment.
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. Bishops are made of men and not of stones.
Use itLife/Essay: wisdom is acquired over time; no one is born wise.
Time will be gained, and time usually provides a sweet ending for many bitter difficulties.
Use itLife: patience — time eases bitter difficulties.
Control your tongue, for from it flow the greatest evils of human life.
Use itGS4: control of speech; harm of careless words.
It is ambition, but a generous ambition, that seeks to improve one's status without harm to others.
Use itGS4: healthy ambition improves oneself without harming others.