Quote: Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: Faint heart never won fair lady. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: Take away the cause, and the effect ceases. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: A person dishonored is worst than dead. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: Man appoints, and God disappoints. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: He had a face like a blessing. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: The eyes those silent tongues of love. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: Fair and softly goes far. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Quote: She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being. [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]