Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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Nor has his death the world deceived than his wondrous life surprised; if he like a madman lived least he like a wise one died.
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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
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Every production must resemble its author.