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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes
25 of the best book quotes from Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
01
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
craziness
ᐧ
sleeping
ᐧ
reading
concepts
02
The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
character
concept
03
The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
nonsense
concept
04
Perhaps to be too practical is madness.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
madness
concept
05
Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
madness
concept
06
To surrender dreams — this may be madness.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
madness
ᐧ
dreams
concepts
07
Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Sancho Panza
character
life
ᐧ
death
concepts
08
The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
honor
ᐧ
war
concepts
09
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Don Quixote
character
good and evil
concept
10
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Cardenio
character
the mind
ᐧ
women
concepts
11
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
intelligence
ᐧ
humor
concepts
12
The knight’s sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Don Quixote
character
care
concept
13
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
truth
concept
14
Until death it is all life.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
death
ᐧ
life
concepts
15
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Don Quixote
character
hardship and misfortunes
concept
16
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
madness
concept
17
For hope is always born at the same time as love.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
love
ᐧ
hoping
concepts
18
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
hunger
concept
19
It’s up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they’re going well.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
happiness
ᐧ
bravery
concepts
20
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Sanson
character
writing
ᐧ
history
concepts
21
Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Don Quixote
character
destiny
concept
22
He who’s down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
sleeping
ᐧ
laziness
concepts
23
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
love
concept
24
“There is no book so bad but it has something good in it.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Don Quixote
ᐧ
The Bachelor
characters
goodness
ᐧ
books
concepts
25
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
good and evil
concept
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