458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and the goal of a good intention was never reached through its opposite, laziness.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

Facts, my dear Sancho, are the enemy of truth.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

La buena y verdadera amistad no puede ni debe ser sospechosa de nada.

With these meager scraps of Latin and the like, you may perhaps be taken for a scholar, which is honorable and profitable these days.

Never look for this year’s birds in last year’s nests.

thou born monster, storehouse of lies, hoard of untruths, garner of knaveries, inventor of scandals, publisher of absurdities, enemy of the respect due to royal personages! Begone, show thyself no more before me under pain of my wrath