Cervantes
Cervantes
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...
ignorance ignorant vulgar
Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.
hatred faithful way
Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
wise hands tongue
The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
heart faces shy
A shy face is better than a forward heart.
father judging mind
He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
doors fortune remedy
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
doe knows know-how
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
father history may
History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.
men turkeys tables
I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.
christian vengeance injury
Good Christians should never avenge injuries.
men sorrow too-much
Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
men purses pockets
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
men heaven bread
Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
remembrance prove former
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.