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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God bears with the wicked, but not forever
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground
Fair and softly goes far
Every man is the son of his own works
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience
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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