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Don Quixote (1605)
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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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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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
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Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
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There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
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Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
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The painter Orbaneja of Ubeda, if he chanced to draw a cock, he wrote under it, "This is a cock," lest the people should take it for a fox.
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He's [Don Quixote's] a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals.
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[To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say...
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The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment.
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
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There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
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When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease and in the sick man's willingness to take the medicines which the physician prescribes...
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann
Miguel de Cervantes
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Born:
September 29, 1547
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 68)
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