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That which costs little is less valued.
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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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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Until death it is all life.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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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 private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Miguel de Cervantes
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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