Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never led to good intention's goal.

La diligencia es madre de la buena ventura y la pereza, su contrario, jamas llego al termino que pide un buen deseo.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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Diligence Idleness Hard work Fortune

Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Source

Don Quixote

Medium

Novel

Language

Spanish

Time

1615 1610s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Spain Europe

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Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Between us and excellence, the gods have placed the sweat of our brows.

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Hesiod. Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι [Works and Days]. c. 700 BC, l. 289.

Current Citation

Hesiod. "Works and Days." Theogony and Works and Days, translated by M. L. West. Oxford University Press, 2009, l. 289.

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The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.

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