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Miguel de Cervantes

Read through the most famous quotes from Miguel de Cervantes




God bears with the wicked, but not forever.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#forever #god #wicked

A closed mouth catches no flies.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#closed #flies #mouth

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


— Miguel de Cervantes


#miserable #only #partners #their #tis

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#preserve #vanity #will #you #yourself

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#keeps #moderately #neither #nor #observes

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#always #broken #cannot #does #falsehood

He had a face like a blessing.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#face #had #like

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#children #fathers #mothers #own #their

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#nature #them #to love #women

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#discipline #one thing #praise #submit #thing






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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