458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

He who reforms, God assists.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Good Christians should never avenge injuries.

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.

There is nothing costs less than civility.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.