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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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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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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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Many littles make a much.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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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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Too much sanity may be madness!
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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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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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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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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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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