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Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
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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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.
Miguel de Cervantes
Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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Until death it is all life.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
Miguel de Cervantes
She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
Miguel de Cervantes
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.
Miguel de Cervantes
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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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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He had a face like a blessing.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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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.
Miguel de Cervantes
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
Miguel de Cervantes
The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
Miguel de Cervantes
Other men's pains are easily borne.
Miguel de Cervantes
A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
Miguel de Cervantes
Let us make hay while the sun shines.
Miguel de Cervantes
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
Miguel de Cervantes
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
Miguel de Cervantes
Man have to have friends even in hell.
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