Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others? — 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
