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
art rome political
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
art giving victory
The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.
art cat coward
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
friendship art thee
Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
art painting painter
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
company thou thy
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
deal great man
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
son acceptance men
Every man is the son of his own works.
emotional glasses giants
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
attractive attributes eyes mercy pleasing though
Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
brave man son
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
house street
By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
get-well recovery past
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
medicine nurse wounds
God who sends the wound sends the medicine.