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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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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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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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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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When a man says, Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife? there is no answer to be made.
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