Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Quotes
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
...in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.
We know already ample experience that it does not require much cleverness or much learning to be a governor, for there are a hundred round about us that scarcely know how to read.
It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.
Anyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob.
... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~
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.
Demasiada cordura puede ser la peor de las locuras, ver la vida como es y no como debería de ser.Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads
I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow
Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end.
El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason, so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
