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
remedy all-things
There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha
life-and-love creativity order
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
kindness able great-person
Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
emotional glasses giants
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
teeth diamond
A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
kings home thrones
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
innovation language adopted
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
leafs turns
I'll turn over a new leaf.
ungrateful wicked ingratitude
The wicked are always ungrateful.
guidance standards comparison
Comparisons are odious.
sorrow bread bearable
All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.
knowing-who-you-are knights monsters
Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
virtue nobility truest
Virtue is the truest nobility.
kings snakes devil
Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.