Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
Miguel de Cervantes
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Miguel de Cervantes
Age: 69 †
Born: 1547
Born: January 1
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
Accountant
Author
Lyricist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Soldier
Tax Collector
Writer
Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
Death
Charm
Alleviates
Feel
Remove
Removes
Feels
Otherwise
Alleviate
Good
Sorrow
Estate
Would
Thoughts
Inheritance
Men
Strange
Estates
Least
Hopes
Friends
Legacy
Wondrously
More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
Miguel de Cervantes
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Miguel de Cervantes
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
Miguel de Cervantes
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
Miguel de Cervantes
A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
Miguel de Cervantes
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes
For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
Miguel de Cervantes
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
Miguel de Cervantes
No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
Miguel de Cervantes
She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
Miguel de Cervantes
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
Miguel de Cervantes
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
Miguel de Cervantes
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Miguel de Cervantes
Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
Miguel de Cervantes
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
Miguel de Cervantes
Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
Miguel de Cervantes
Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
Miguel de Cervantes
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Miguel de Cervantes
He who reforms, God assists.
Miguel de Cervantes
