Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good a knight,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
