Famous Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Below are famous quotes by Miguel de Cervantes - Spanish adventurer, author, & poet (1547 - 1616).

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

Man have to have friends even in hell.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

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