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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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More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
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
Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
Miguel de Cervantes
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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What a man has, so much he is sure of.
Miguel de Cervantes
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
Miguel de Cervantes
With life many things are remedied.
Miguel de Cervantes
Man have to have friends even in hell.
Miguel de Cervantes
I shall be as secret as the grave.
Miguel de Cervantes
I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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There is nothing costs less than civility.
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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.
Miguel de Cervantes
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
Miguel de Cervantes
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
Miguel de Cervantes
