Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – 22 April 1616), was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists...
concerned essential far god himself history sacred truth
History is a sacred kind of writing, because truth is essential to it, and where truth is, there God himself is, so far as truth is concerned
boat finger pie
He has an oar in every man's boat and a finger in every pie
best victory wish
He got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for
book found good
There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it.
bottom fortune lies mill round today top turns wheel yesterday
Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom
complain enjoy luck passes
Who doesn't know how to enjoy luck when it comes, should not complain when it passes him by
bad hanged house judgment man speak
It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged
actions deeds ennoble good sons
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds
came lived
Without a governorship you came out of your mother's womb, without a governorship you've lived to this day, and without a governorship you'll go - or they'll take you - to the grave.
love nature women
That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
divinity lives preaches understand
He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand
beauty inspire kinds pleases sight
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections.
jars music soul tune
All music jars when the soul is out of tune
although among attributes justice mercy shines
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice