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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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Alcala de Henares
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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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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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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It is good to live and learn.
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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