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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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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Alcala de Henares
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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Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
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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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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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When we are asleep, we are all equal.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker
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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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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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