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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
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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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I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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Think before thou speakest.
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