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Miguel de Cervantes, a Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, was born on September 29, 1547, and died on April 22, 1616. He is best known for his masterpiece, 'Don Quixote,' which is considered a classic of Western literature and has had a profound impact on literature worldwide.

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Famous Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

“Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.”

Knows Should Made Courage Taken Birth Worship Ill Wit Comparison

Book:The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha

Source: The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha

“One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.”

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“Good Christians should never avenge injuries.”

Should Christian Injury Vengeance Good Christian

Book:Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha

Source: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha

“It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.”

Should Sides Compassion Judging Severity

Book:The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed

Source: The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed

“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.”

Way Should Interest Ought Hatred Affection Faithful Historian Precise Swerve

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.”

Men Should May Use Law Poet Friends Prove Contrary Ads

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.”

Should Enjoy Flower Wall Fine Garden Distance Treated Owners Iron Virtuous Fragrance Guarded Relics Flower Garden Virtuous Woman

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.”

Should May Should Have Spanish Proverb

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.”

Should Writing Has Beens One Thing Poet Should Have Historian Should Have Been Epic Poems

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.”

Should Ends Should Have

Book:The life and adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha: new edition, with engravings from designs by Richard Westall

Source: The life and adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha: new edition, with engravings from designs by Richard Westall

“Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.”

Want Should Said Book Would Be Grace Poet Disease Singing Dear Woods Wander Burned Uncles Shepherds Contagious Meadows Niece

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.”

Knows Should May Dream Seems Lying Madness Surrender Practicals Lunatic Madness And Sanity

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”

Life Inspirational Should May Hope Too Much Madness Sanity Madness And Sanity Insanity And Sanity Madness And Insanity

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.”

Should Home Liberty Broken Should Have Legs Libertarian Governors Broken Leg

Book:Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition

Source: Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition

“For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.”

Should Action Past Mother Causes Interest Path Example Ought Hatred Affection Witness Historian Instruction Truthful Precise Rivals Swerve

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.”

Should Fear Fine Wit

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes (Illustrated)