Miguel de cervantes quotes
Explore a curated collection of Miguel de cervantes's most famous quotes. Dive into timeless reflections that offer deep insights into life, love, and the human experience through his profound words.
Great people create great acts of kindness.
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
Where one door shuts another opens.
Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
A good name is better than bags of gold.
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
Man have to have friends even in hell.
Give the devil his due.
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
Virtue is the truest nobility.
Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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.
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Where there's music there can be no evil.
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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.
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
God exalts the man who humbles himself.
Love not what you are but only what you may become.
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
Believe there are no limits but the sky.
Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.
A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
When we are asleep, we are all equal.
The wicked are always ungrateful.
The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
Patience and shuffle the cards.
There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha
Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
A stout heart breaks bad luck.
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
They who lose today may win tomorrow.
Many littles make a much.
Until death it is all life.
Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
God who gives the wound gives the salve.
By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.
It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
Comparisons are odious.
When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.
Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.
The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
Seek for good, but expect evil.
When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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.
To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.
That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Every dog has his day.
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
It is good to live and learn.
Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
Every man is the son of his own works.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
In the night all cats are gray.
