Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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Give the devil his due.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Get out of harms way.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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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.
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God helps everyone with what is his own.
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Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.
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A stout heart breaks bad luck.