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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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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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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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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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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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He who reforms, God assists.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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