Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – 22 April 1616), was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 September 1547
CountrySpain
guidance standards comparison
Comparisons are odious.
knowing-who-you-are knights monsters
Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
lovers absent
Everything disturbs an absent lover.
lovers uneasy industrious
Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
helping god-help
God helps everyone with what is his own.
followers folly comrade
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
desperate-measures desperate urges
Necessity urges desperate measures.
traitor treason please
Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
wit-and-humor genius wit
Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
drinking wine secret
Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
gathering wool ass
But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
generosity credit cheaper
What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
preacher preaching wells
He preaches well that lives well
madness
Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.