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Miguel de Cervantes

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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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The eyes those silent tongues of love.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.


— 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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