Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long.
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Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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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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Comparisons are odious.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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It is good to live and learn.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.