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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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 is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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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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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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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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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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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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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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In hell there is no retention.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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