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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.
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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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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He who reforms, God assists.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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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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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.
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