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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
Accountant
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Lyricist
Novelist
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Soldier
Tax Collector
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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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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
Miguel de Cervantes
Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
Miguel de Cervantes
Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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Give the devil his due.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
Miguel de Cervantes
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
Miguel de Cervantes
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.
Miguel de Cervantes
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
Miguel de Cervantes
