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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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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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I do not insist, answered Don Quixote, that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
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