Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de 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...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 September 1547
CountrySpain
past history cost
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
truth honesty men
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
sea water atheism
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
men salt knows
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
opportunity doors another-opportunity
Where one door shuts another opens.
inspirational personal-knowledge world
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
men doe
No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
fear halloween eye
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
compassion literature fairness
Fair and softly goes far.
heart eating stomach
The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
bad-years months world
A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!...
lying cowardice valor
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
eye tongue caution
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
happiness laughter joy
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.