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Miguel de Cervantes — Portrait after a picture by Attributed to Juan de Jáuregui (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

1547–1616

7 quotes.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
Don Quixote, Part I (1605), Ch. 1 (tr. Samuel Putnam)
- Reading
- Sleep
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
Don Quixote, Part II (1615), Ch. 33
- Comedy
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
Don Quixote, Part II (1615), Ch. 16 (tr. Henry Edward Watts, 1895)
- Writing
Diligence is the mother of good fortune
Don Quixote (1605–1615), Part I, Chapter XLVIIn context
- Luck
- Work
The best sauce in the world is hunger
Don Quixote (1605–1615), Part II, Chapter VIn context
- Food
Comparisons are odious
Don Quixote (1605–1615), Part II, Chapter XXIIIIn context
If a governor comes out of his government rich, they say he has been a thief; and if he comes out poor, that he has been a noodle and a blockhead.
Don Quixote (1605–1615), Part II, Chapter LVIn context
- Government
- Politics

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