Tao Te Ching
Miguel de Cervantes
1547 – 1616 CE
One of the world's best novelists
Soldier, purchasing agent, tax collector, a cardinal's assistant, Barbary pirate captive for 5 years, and Spanish prisoner for 3 years; Cervantes became the most famous Spanish language writer, one of the world's best novelists, and writer of—after the Bible and the Tao Te Ching—the world's most translated book, Don Quixote. Translated into 140+ languages with over 700 editions, many critics believe it the best work of fiction ever written and the first modern novel. Considered the origin of psychoanalysis, one of his books impressed Sigmund Freud enough to inspire him to learn Spanish just so he could read it in the original language.
Lineages
Hispanic
Eras
Western
Renaissance (1304 – 1576 CE)Chinese
Ming dynasty (1368 – 1644 CE)Unlisted Sources
Don Quixote (1605-1615)
Don Quixote (1605)
Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes (8 quotes)
“Works of charity negligently performed are of no worth.”
from Don Quixote (1605-1615)
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“History is in a manner a sacred thing... the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of the past, example of the present, and monitor of the future.”
from Don Quixote (1605-1615)
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“Art may improve but cannot surpass nature.”
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“Liberty is one of the choicest gifts that heaven can bestowed upon man, and exceeds in value all the treasures for without it, life is insupportable.”
from Don Quixote (1605-1615)
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“Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end.”
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“History is a sacred kind of writing, because truth is essential to it, and where truth is, there God himself is, so far as truth is concerned.”
from Don Quixote (1605-1615)
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“Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.”
from Don Quixote (1605)
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Quotes about Miguel de Cervantes (2 quotes)
“When I read Cervantes, his hero Don Quixote seemed to me a great saint and martyr who had left amidst jeering and laughter to discover, beyond our humble everyday life, the essence which hides in back of appearances”
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“Perhaps Cervantes was the better equipped to provide his maquette for the modern novel because he was not especially reflective or deeply learned or philosophical. He was i love with the colors and moments and movements of life.”
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