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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
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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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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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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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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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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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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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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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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