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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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
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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.
Miguel de Cervantes
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Miguel de Cervantes
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
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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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With life many things are remedied.
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Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
Miguel de Cervantes
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
Miguel de Cervantes
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
Miguel de Cervantes
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
Miguel de Cervantes
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
Patience and shuffle the cards.
Miguel de Cervantes
Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
Miguel de Cervantes
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
Miguel de Cervantes
