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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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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of # mercy .
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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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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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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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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