The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve. — 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
One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
