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Miguel de Cervantes

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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#base #doing #doing good #fellows #good

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#comes #felicity #happens #mixture #pure

Jests that give pains are no jests.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#jests #pains

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#attainment #good #laziness #never #wish

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#his #honor #insupportable #liberty #life

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#love #other #policy #same #thing

Man appoints, and God disappoints.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#disappoints #god #man

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#among #every #found #greatest #himself

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#better #bolts #her #maiden #own






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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