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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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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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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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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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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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I do not insist, answered Don Quixote, that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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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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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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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 know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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It takes all sorts (to make a world
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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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He had a face like a blessing.
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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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