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...
belongs business divers extremely good others polish sciences tender whom
Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom divers others virgins - namely, all the other sciences - make it their business to enrich, polish and adorn; and to her it belongs to make use of them
actions deeds ennoble good sons
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds
book found good
There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it.
bad good imitate nature painters
Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
good sorrows
All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.
answer man says
When a man says ""Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?"" there's no answer to be made
los
El ver mucho y leer mucho aviva los ingenios de los hombres.
drink keeps neither nor promise
Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise
fear ground
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
blessings covers human invented
Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.
company
Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
armies turn
Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?
love nature women
That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
complain enjoy luck passes
Who doesn't know how to enjoy luck when it comes, should not complain when it passes him by