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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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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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He who reforms, God assists.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
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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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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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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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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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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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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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