Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the… — 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
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
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 were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and… — 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
