Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
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Every production must resemble its author.
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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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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 woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.
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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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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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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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When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy.
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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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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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When the headaches, all the members partake of the pain.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Necessity urges desperate measures.
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It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
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There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.
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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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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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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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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
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It is good to live and learn.
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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.