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Miguel de Cervantes

Read through the most famous quotes from Miguel de Cervantes




A person dishonored is worst than dead.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Fair and softly goes far.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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He preaches well that lives well.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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


— Miguel de Cervantes


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That which costs little is less valued.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.


— 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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