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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Miguel de Cervantes
Age: 69 †
Born: 1547
Born: January 1
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Until death it is all life.
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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