I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a… — 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, it seems he intentionally passes over them in silence, since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them deviate from the… — 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 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
