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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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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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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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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
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What a man has, so much he is sure of.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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