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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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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Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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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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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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Give the devil his due.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.
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