Spanish - Novelist | September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
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To be prepared is half the victory.
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
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The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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