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
war conflict fortune
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
military war blessing
Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
courage war weapons
It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
arms ornaments warfare
Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
love war policy
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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.