Miguel de Cervantes
A Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language, author of Don Quixote.
Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
To finish the work is to begin.
Authors are like gamblers: they risk everything on the throw of the dice.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Tell me what company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are.
A man must eat a peck of dirt before he dies.
The more we love, the more we suffer.
Fortune leaves the door to the inn open.
One cannot always be watching at the door of one's heart.
The stomach has no ears nor does it listen to the voice of reason.
To be poor and content is to be rich.
The value of actions lies in their intention.
Wit is the most dangerous weapon.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; he who loses courage loses all.
The life of a man consists not in seeing or hearing, but in thinking.
No padlock can guard a plantation better than an honest servant.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.