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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
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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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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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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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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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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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