Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

The abundance of things, even if they are not good, makes them not valued, and the scarcity, even of the bad, is valued in some way.

Retreating is not fleeing, nor is waiting sanity when danger outweighs hope.

It seems to me, Sancho, that there is no proverb that is not true, because they are all sentences drawn from the same experience, the mother of all sciences.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; whatever concepts are born within it, such will be its writings.

What a father does for his son is what he does for himself.

A good name is worth more than great riches.

Sorrow and pleasure walk so closely together that the sad easily becomes desperate and the joyful becomes overconfident.

While you gain something, you lose nothing.

For the possessor of wealth, happiness does not come from having it, but from spending it, and not just spending it however, but knowing how to spend it.

Sleep is the relief of the miseries for those who suffer them awake.

Let your sleep be moderate; for the one who does not rise with the sun, does not enjoy the day.

Ingratitude is the daughter of pride.