Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.
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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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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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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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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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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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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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Comparisons are odious.
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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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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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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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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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There is no proverb that is not true.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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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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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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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.