Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
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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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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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He who gives early gives twice.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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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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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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There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.
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"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.