Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Trying to stop slanderers' tongues is like trying to put gates to the open plain.

All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories — and bless the man who invented sleep, a cloak over all human thought, food that drives away hunger, water that banishes thirst, fire that heats up cold, chill that moderates passion, and, finally, universal currency with which all things can be bought, weight and balance that brings the shepherd and the king, the fool and the wise, to the same level. There’s only one bad thing about sleep, as far as I’ve ever heard, and that is that it resembles death, since there’s very little difference between a sleeping man and a corpse.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Whether thus adorned she would have been beautiful or not, and what she must have been in her prosperity, may be imagined from the beauty remaining to her after so many hardships; for, as everyone knows, the beauty of some women has its times and its seasons, and is increased or diminished by chance causes; and naturally the emotions of the mind will heighten or impair it, though indeed more frequently they totally destroy it.

La folie suprême n'est-elle pas de voir la vie telle qu'elle est et non telle qu'elle devrait être?

Time will be gained, and time usually provides a sweet ending for many bitter difficulties.

…it’s my intention to clear this insula of all kinds of filth, as well as people who are vagrants, idlers, and sluggards, because I want you to know, my friends, that shiftless, lazy people are to the nation what drones are to the hive: they eat the honey that the worker bees produce.

Here, then, I say is what the student has to undergo; first of all poverty:

El caballero andante sin amores es como arbol sin hojas y sin frutas o el cuerpo sin alma.

As ill-luck would have it.

And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.

In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can't help saying right off what comes to my tongue.

All is not gold that glisters.

"ان السموات العلى التي تقوي الوهيتك الـَهيا بعون النجوم و تجعلك مستحقا للحقوق اللتي تستحقها عظمتك "
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