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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
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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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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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All is not gold that glisters.
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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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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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Think before thou speakest.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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