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Miguel de Cervantes

Read through the most famous quotes from Miguel de Cervantes




To be prepared is half the victory.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Every man is the son of his own works.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.


— 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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