Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

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

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

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

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.

Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.

He had a face like a blessing.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

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.

Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time

It requires a long time to know anyone.

For hope is always born at the same time as love.

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.