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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
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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More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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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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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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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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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Miguel de Cervantes
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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