"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind."
— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

"The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty."
— Cervantes

"Too much sanity may be madness. But maddest of all, to see life as it is, and not as it should be!"
— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

"All sorrows are less with bread. "
— Cervantes

"Es natural condición de las mujeres desdeñar a quien las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece"
— Cervantes (Don Quijote de la Mancha)

"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"
— Cervantes (Don Quijote de la Mancha)

"Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote"
— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

"El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho."
— Cervantes (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha)

"It is the mission of each true knight...
His duty... nay, his privilege!
To dream the impossible dream,
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go;
To right the unrightable wrong.

To love, pure and chaste, from afar,
To try, when your arms are too weary,
To reach the unreachable star!

This is my Quest to follow that star,
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far,
To fight for the right
Without question or pause,
To be willing to march into hell
For a heavenly cause!

And I know, if I'll only be true
To this glorious Quest,
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest.

And the world will be better for this,
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage,
To reach the unreachable stars!"
— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

"Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched."
— Cervantes

"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."
— Cervantes

"Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be."
— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. -Don Quixote."
— Cervantes

"Time ripens all things; no man is born wise."
— Cervantes

"He who sings scares away his woes."
— Cervantes

"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
— Cervantes

"The pen is the tongue of the mind."
— Cervantes

"Amor y deseo son dos cosas diferentes; que no todo lo que se ama se desea, ni todo lo que se desea se ama."
— Cervantes

"Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected. Look there, Sancho Panza, my friend, and see those thirty or so wild giants, with whom I intend to do battle and kill each and all of them, so with their stolen booty we can begin to enrich ourselves. This is nobel, righteous warfare, for it is wonderfully useful to God to have such an evil race wiped from the face of the earth."
"What giants?" Asked Sancho Panza.
"The ones you can see over there," answered his master, "with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly two leagues long."
"Now look, your grace," said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone."
"Obviously," replied Don Quijote, "you don't know much about adventures."
— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

". . . the truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water."
— Cervantes

"The eyes those silent tongues of love."
— Cervantes

"In short, he so buried himself in his books that he spent the nights reading from twilight till daybreak and spent the days from dawn till dark; and so from little sleep and much reading, his brain dried up and he lost his wits."
— Cervantes

"Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be."
— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

"Remember that there are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul displays its radiance in intelligence, in chastity, in good conduct, in generosity, and in good breeding, and all these qualities may exist in an ugly man. And when we focus our attention upon that beauty, not upon the physical, love generally arises with great violence and intensity. I am well aware that I am not handsome, but I also know that I am not deformed, and it is enough for a man of worth not to be a monster for him to be dearly loved, provided he has those spiritual endowments I have spoken of."
— Cervantes (Don Quixote Part 1 Of 2)

"...There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body,
That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct,
Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man;
And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body,
Love is usually born suddenly and violently."
— Cervantes

"Honesty's the best policy."
— Cervantes

"Donde una puerta se cierra, otra se abre
"Where a door is closed, another is opened"
~ Don Quixote de la Mancha"
— Cervantes

"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world"
— Cervantes

"Hunger is the best sauce in the world."
— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

"Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse."
— Cervantes

"Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves."
— Cervantes

"There's no taking trout with dry breeches."
— Cervantes

"“'All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’

‘Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’

‘That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’

‘There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho.

‘Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.’”
"
— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

"La plume est la langue de l'âme."
— Cervantes

""Muchos son los andantes," dijo Sancho.
"Muchos," respondió don Quijote, "pero pocos los que merecen nombre de caballeros.""
— Cervantes (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha)

"¡No milagro, milagro, sino industria, industria!"
— Cervantes (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha)

"Puede haber amor sin celos, pero no sin temores. "
— Cervantes

"O Don Quixote, wise as thou art brave,
La Mancha's splendor and of Spain the star!
To thee I say that if the peerless maid,
Dulcinea del Toboso, is to be restored
to the state that was once hers, it needs must be
that thy squire Sancho take on his bared behind,
those sturdy buttocks, must consent to take
three thousand lashes and three hundred more,
and well laid on, that they may sting and smart;
for those are the authors of her woe
have thus resolved, and that is why I've come,
This, gentles, is the word I bring to you."
— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

"The reason of the unreasonable treatment of my reason is the reason that I complain of your beauty.
(The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha)"
— Cervantes

"Kejujuran adalah kebijakan yang paling baik."
— Cervantes

""The journey is better than the inn"."
— Cervantes (Le siège de Numance)

"Buatlah jerami saat matahari masih bercahaya terik."
— Cervantes

"When a rich man is hurt, his wail goeth heavens high. (Sancho Panza)"
— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

"de noche todos los gatos son pardos"
— Cervantes

"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. "
— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

"I don't see what my arse has to do with enchantings!"
— Cervantes

"To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite."
— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

"The dogs bark because we gallop"
— Cervantes

""...maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.""
— Cervantes

"La pluma es la lengua del alma."
— Cervantes