Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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

Graduation, Time, Learning

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel de Cervantes

Life, May, Madness

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel de Cervantes

Victory, Half, Prepared

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes

Power, Stand, Earn

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Miguel de Cervantes

Courage, Stars, Last

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
Miguel de Cervantes

Lost, Brain, Him

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

Good, Best, Mother

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Miguel de Cervantes

Another, Discipline, Praise

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
Miguel de Cervantes

Miserable, Comfort, Partners

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Miguel de Cervantes

God, Forever, Wicked

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes

Courage, Friend, Wealth

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Miguel de Cervantes

Play, Expect, Cats

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

Truth, May, Cannot

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes

Experience, Long, Short

A closed mouth catches no flies.
Miguel de Cervantes

Mouth, Closed, Flies

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Miguel de Cervantes

Secret, Drink, Promise

He had a face like a blessing.
Miguel de Cervantes

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

Truth, Rather, Against

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Miguel de Cervantes

Parenting, Children, Mothers

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Miguel de Cervantes

Knowledge, Yourself, Vanity

Fair and softly goes far.
Miguel de Cervantes

Far, Fair, Goes

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Miguel de Cervantes

Good, Deeds, Actions

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Miguel de Cervantes

Love, Nature, Women

A person dishonored is worst than dead.
Miguel de Cervantes

Person, Dead, Worst

He preaches well that lives well.
Miguel de Cervantes

Lives, Preaches

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Born: September 29, 1547

Died: April 23, 1616

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