Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most dif… - Miguel de Cervantes

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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

Miguel de Cervantes

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 – 23 April 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright. He is most famous for his novel Don Quixote, or Don Quijote de la Mancha, which is considered by many to be the first modern novel, one of the greatest works in Western literature, and the greatest of the Spanish language.

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Los buenos artistas imitan la naturaleza; los malos, la vomitan.

...porque he oído decir que esta que llaman Fortuna es una mujer borracha y antojadiza, y, sobretodo, ciega, y así, no vee lo que hace, ni sabe a quién derriba, ni a quien ensalza.

Consider, that no jewel upon earth is comparable to a woman of virtue and honor; and, that the honor of the sex consists in the fair characters they maintain.

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