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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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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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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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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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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