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Miguel de Cervantes

Read through the most famous quotes from Miguel de Cervantes




Thou hast seen nothing yet.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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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.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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About Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Quotes




Did you know about Miguel de Cervantes?

In 1607 he settled in Madrid where he lived and worked until his death. The picaroon strain already made familiar in Spain through the Picaresque novels of Lazarillo de Tormes and his successors appears in one or another of them especially in the Rinconete y Cortadillo. 31 October 1626) daughter of Fernando de Salazar y Vozmediano and Catalina de Palacios.

Because of financial problems Cervantes worked as a purveyor for the Spanish Armada and later as a tax collector. His influence on the Spanish language has been so great that the language is often called la lengua de Cervantes ("the language of Cervantes"). In 1597 discrepancies in his accounts of three years previous landed him in the Crown Jail of Seville.

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