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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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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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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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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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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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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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That which costs little is less valued.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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It is good to live and learn.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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