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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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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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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
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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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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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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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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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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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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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