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Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Honest words give us a clear indication of the honesty of the person who speaks or writes them.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Rarely or never is ambition fulfilled without harm to others.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Eat little and dine less, for the health of the whole body is forged in the office of the stomach.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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The year that is abundant in poetry, tends to be abundant in hunger.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Since you are not experienced in the ways of the world, everything that poses some difficulty seems impossible to you.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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The abundance of things, even if they are not good, makes them not valued, and the scarcity, even of the bad, is valued in some way.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Retreating is not fleeing, nor is waiting sanity when danger outweighs hope.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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It seems to me, Sancho, that there is no proverb that is not true, because they are all sentences drawn from the same experience, the mother of all sciences.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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The pen is the tongue of the soul; whatever concepts are born within it, such will be its writings.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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What a father does for his son is what he does for himself.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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A good name is worth more than great riches.