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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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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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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Get out of harms way.
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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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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
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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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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
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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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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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