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It requires a long time to know anyone.
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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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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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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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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It is good to live and learn.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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Get out of harms way.
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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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In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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