Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

The path of virtue is very narrow, and the path of vice, wide and spacious.

Love and desire are two different things; not everything that is loved is desired, nor is everything that is desired loved.

Sir, sorrows were not made for beasts, but for men; but if men feel them too much, they become beasts.

If jealousy is a sign of love, it is like a fever in a sick man, where having it is a sign of having life, but a sick and ill-disposed life.

The one who does not know how to enjoy good fortune when it comes, should not complain if it passes.

Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that the heavens gave to men; with it, the treasures that the earth and the sea hold cannot be equaled: for freedom, as well as for honor, life can and should be risked.

Fortune, as they call her, is a drunken and capricious woman, and above all, blind, so she does not see what she does, nor does she know whom she knocks down.

There can be love without jealousy, but not without fears.

Don't walk, Sancho, loose and slack, for the disheveled clothing gives indications of a downcast spirit.

Friendships that are true, no one can disturb them.

It's better to have the shame on your face than the stain on your heart.

Good and true friendship should not be suspicious in any way.