Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Commit yourself to God with all your heart, for many times He tends to shower His mercies when hopes are driest.

What madness or what folly leads me to recount the faults of others, when I have so much to say about my own?

No sin is so great, nor vice so entrenched that it cannot be completely erased or removed with repentance.

The beauty of the body often indicates the beauty of the soul.

Don't you know that recklessness is not bravery?

There is no road that does not end, unless it is opposed by laziness and idleness.

The truth thins down and does not break, and always walks over lies like oil on water.

He who reads a lot and travels a lot, sees a lot and knows a lot.

In love's beginnings, quick disillusionments often serve as qualified remedies.

Falsehood has wings and flies, and truth follows it crawling, so that when people realize the deception, it's already too late.

Fortunate is the one to whom heaven gave a piece of bread, without being indebted for it to anyone other than heaven itself!

Weapons have as their purpose and end peace, which is the greatest good that men can desire in this life.