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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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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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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.
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True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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Many littles make a much.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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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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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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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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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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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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All sorrows are less with bread.
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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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