Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Citations
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote. Translated by Peter Anthony Motteux, vol. 3, John Grant, 1902, p. 272.
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"Winters" is used in both a literal and metaphorical sense. The wise man must be old enough to have garnered the wisdom and he must have lived through some difficult times.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language, and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work often cited as both the first modern novel and one of the pinnacles of world literature.