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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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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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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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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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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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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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The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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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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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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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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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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