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We must not stand upon trifles.
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
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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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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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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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 ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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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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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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