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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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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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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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