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Miguel de Cervantes

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Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#away #fear #hope #more #reason

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#falsehood #oil #rise #rise above #truth

Virtue is the truest nobility.


— Miguel de Cervantes


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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#death #flat #lay #one time #other

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#law #motive #pity #severity #softened

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#madness #may #much #sanity #see

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.


— Miguel de Cervantes


#rome #thou #thou art






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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