Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
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The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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When the headaches, all the members partake of the pain.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
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But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
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It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.
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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
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It is good to live and learn.