Miguel de Cervantes

Writer

Miguel de Cervantes was a Spanish writer best known for his novel Don Quixote, which explores themes of reality, honor, and the human condition.

Born
September 29, 1547
Died
April 22, 1616
Quotes
437
Rank
#89

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"They must needs go whom the Devil drives."

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"History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth."

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"I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance."

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"Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind."

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"When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made."

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"Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun."

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"Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine."

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"Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward."

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"Let the worst come to the worst."

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"For hope is always born at the same time as love."

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"She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being."

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"Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth."

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"Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow."

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