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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
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There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of # mercy .
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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Give the devil his due.
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