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Miguel de Cervantes on Retirement

1547–1616 Spain

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There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)

The rather since every man is the son of his own works.

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

Every one is the son of his own works.

Earned with the sweat of my brows.

No ay memoria à quien el tiempo no acabe, ni dolor que nuerte no le consuma.
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not put an end to.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Miguel de Cervantes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.