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I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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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Until death it is all life.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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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.
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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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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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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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