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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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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True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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Many littles make a much.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.
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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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
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The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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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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