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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Miguel de Cervantes
Age: 69 †
Born: 1547
Born: January 1
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
Accountant
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Lyricist
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Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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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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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 and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
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The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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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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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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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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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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