He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe,… — 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
Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have… — 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
“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
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
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
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share
