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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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What a man has, so much he is sure of.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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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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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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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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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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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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