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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Miguel de Cervantes
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.
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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
Miguel de Cervantes
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Miguel de Cervantes
The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
Miguel de Cervantes
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Miguel de Cervantes
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Miguel de Cervantes
Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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He who reforms, God assists.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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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.
Miguel de Cervantes
Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
Miguel de Cervantes
Other men's pains are easily borne.
Miguel de Cervantes
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
Miguel de Cervantes
To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
Miguel de Cervantes
True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
Miguel de Cervantes
When we are asleep, we are all equal.
Miguel de Cervantes
