458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

Think before thou speakest.

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.