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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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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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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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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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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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Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
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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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