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Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
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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I do not insist, answered Don Quixote, that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
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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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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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When we are asleep, we are all equal.
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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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It requires a long time to know anyone.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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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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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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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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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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