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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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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Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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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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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
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Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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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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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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