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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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Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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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.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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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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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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There's no love lost between us.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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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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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker
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