Miguel de Cervantes vs. Robert Burton
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Miguel de Cervantes
1547 – 1616
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 two-part novel Don Quixote, a work considered to be the first modern novel. Don Quixote has been labelled by many well-known authors as the "best book of all time" and the "best and most central work in world literature".
"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."
Robert Burton
1577 – 1640
Robert Burton was an English author and fellow of Oxford University, known for his encyclopedic The Anatomy of Melancholy.
"To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."