About Miguel de Cervantes: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
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.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Man appoints, and God disappoints.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
To be prepared is half the victory.
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
