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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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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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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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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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