Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Valeriu Butulescu

Valeriu Butulescu

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Critics see the music and hear the painting.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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While you gain something, you lose nothing.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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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.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Ingratitude is the daughter of pride.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Each person is as God made them, and often even worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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There can be no grace where there is no discretion.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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The desired good becomes more exhausting the closer the hope of possessing it is.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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A timely word is worth more than a hundred out of time.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Oh envy, root of endless evils and moth of virtues.