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
witty inspiration humorous
Facts are the enemy of truth.
inspirational littles cost
That which costs little is less valued.
inspirational personal-knowledge world
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
inspirational wisdom long
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
inspirational funny graduation
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
inspirational hurt truth
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
inspirational life hope
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
inspirational courage stars
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
inspirational life friendship
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
inspirational inspiring money
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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.