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
taken wine doe
Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.
summer doe
One swallow alone does not make a summer.
sight inspire doe
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
devil doe stiles
Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
doe knows know-how
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
luck complaining doe
Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
men doe
No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
pain remembrance doe
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
book doe spanish-and-english
There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in 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.