quotes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

"All sorrows are less with bread. "
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"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"
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quijote de la Mancha)

"Too much sanity may be madness. But maddest of all, to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

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— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)

""Es natural condición de las mujeres desdeñar a quien las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece""
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (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!"
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)

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

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

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

""El que lee mucho y ande mucho, vee mucho y sabe mucho." "
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote de la Mancha)

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

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

"...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."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"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."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)

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

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

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

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

"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. "
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)

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

"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."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"I don't see what my arse has to do with enchantings!"
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)

"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."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)

"Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

"Seine Ehre kann auch der Arme behalten, nicht aber der Schlechte."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

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

"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."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote Part 1 Of 2)

"La pluma es la lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales serán sus escritos."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)

"Más vale la pena en el rostro que la mancha en el corazón."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

"My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (La Gitanilla El Amante Liberal)

"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)"
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"Kejujuran adalah kebijakan yang paling baik."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"Buatlah jerami saat matahari masih bercahaya terik."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"Here lies a gentleman bold
Who was so very brave
He went to lengths untold,
And on the brink of the gave
Death had on him no hold.
By the world he set small store--
He frightened it to the core--
Yet somehow, by Fate's plan,
Though he'd lived a crazy man,
When he died he was sane once more."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)

"When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain. "
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?"
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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