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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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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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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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There's no love lost between us.
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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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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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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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There is nothing costs less than civility.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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