Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Spain
29 Sep 1547 // 22 Apr 1616
Novelist / Poet / Playwright
29 Sep 1547 // 22 Apr 1616
Novelist / Poet / Playwright
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The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application
The eyes those silent tongues of love
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not
That which costs little is less valued
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within
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
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays