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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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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.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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It requires a long time to know anyone.
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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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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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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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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.
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
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