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True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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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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.
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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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.
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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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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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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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To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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