Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

“Don't you be worried or annoyed, Sancho, about any comments you hear, or there will never be an end to them. Keep a safe conscience and let people say what they like: trying to still gossips' tongu...”

“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but...”

“It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.”

“The eyes those silent tongues of love.”

“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.”

“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.”

“That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”

“Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.”

“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”

“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.”

“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.”

“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”

“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.”

“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.”

“Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.”

“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this. ”

“He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all. ”

“Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.”

“Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. ”

“When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.”