The creator of Don Quixote is the poet Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, well-known author for works such as La Galatea, Rinconete and Cortadillo, and his Exemplary Novels, among which are El cerco de Numancia or La cueva de Salamanca. However, despite the years and the importance of his work and his contribution to Spanish culture, most people know little regarding the novelist.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA: THE BEST PHRASES OF THE PLAYWIGHT

• “Be brief in your reasoning, because no one is happy if it is long”
• “Is it possible that your grace does not know that the comparisons that are made from wit to wit, from value to value, from beauty to beauty and from lineage to lineage are always hateful and unwelcome?”
• “Vengeances punish, but they do not remove the blame”
• “The man well prepared for the fight has already achieved half a victory”
• “Somewhere in a book there is a sentence waiting for us to give meaning to existence”
• “This one who is called Fortuna is a drunken and capricious woman, and above all blind, and thus she does not see what she is doing or knows who she is knocking down”
• “Falsehood has wings and flies, and the truth keeps on creeping, so that when people realize the deceit it is already too late”
• “To do good to villains is to pour water into the sea.”
• “He who does not know how to enjoy happiness when it comes to him, should not complain if it goes too far.”
• “No science, as far as science is concerned, deceives; the deceit is in those who don’t know it.”
• “The truth loses weight and does not break, and always walks on lies like oil on water.”
• “He who reads a lot and walks a lot, sees a lot and knows a lot.”
• “Don’t walk around, Sancho, slack and lazy, for a disheveled dress gives signs of a shabby spirit.”
• “Be brief in your reasoning, for no one is happy if it is long.”
• “Eat little and dine less, for the health of the whole body is forged in the office of the stomach.”
• “Each one is as God made him, and many times worse.”
• “The year that is abundant with poetry is usually hungry.”

WHO IS MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA?

Miguel De Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares (Spain) and was the fourth of the seven children of Rodrigo Cervantes, who worked as a surgeon, and Leonor de Cortinas, who had the ability to read and write because at that time it was rare for women. women. His eldest son, Andrés, died a few days following his birth and in 1544, Andrea, the eldest of the sisters, was born.

In 1546 Luisa came, who later joined the Catholic Church as a nun. Miguel de Cervantes, the eldest of the surviving sons, was born in 1547, three years before his younger brother, Rodrigo. The youngest of the Cervantes Saavedra family were Magdalena, who died five years before Cervantes himself, and the youngest, Juan, born in 1555 and who died on an unknown date.