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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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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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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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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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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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