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About Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes was a 16th-century Spanish writer. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his two-part novel Don Quixote, a work considered to be the first modern novel. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Fear — Understanding and overcoming the anxieties that hold us back

More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

“The eyes those silent tongues of love.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Eyes Silent Tongues

“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Children Ugly Think

“For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Time Learning Man

“That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Love Women To Love

“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
Time Will Well

“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
Stand You Earn
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